alt Hacker News> Maybe license people to buy meds and take it away if they abuse it? That's better than the draconian system we have now.
I sympathize with your broader point, but... how is that better? "Sorry, you were buying too much nasal decongestant a decade ago, so no cancer medication for you"?
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renewiltord • 11/08/2024
How is that any better than the current system which is just “no cancer medication for you”?
PeeMcGee • 11/08/2024
I think they were deliberately pointing out the absurdity by comparing it to other far more dangerous things we just waive off if you have a license.
I understood your parent comment in a specific drug way: you can buy pseudo until your license to buy that specific compound, or maybe a group or related chemicals, is revoked. But you can still get any other compound.
Not that different from current situation: we have all our "license" to buy scheduled compounds revoked, but we still can get a lot of other compounds.