First off, it's "percocet". You realize that analgesics like Tylenol #3 and #4 (with Codeine) are OTC in places like Canada, right? That's right, you can go into a drug store and buy them just like you buy tylenol WITHOUT Codeine here.
Here's the thing. Everybody who WANTS illegal drugs in the US can already get them. Want pot? How hard is it to find? Want crack? How hard is it to find? Heroin? Easy to find. So since illegal drugs are so easy to get, what's teh big deal about making the less dangerous pharmaceutical grade drugs available? We've reached the point that it's far easier to find illicit opiates on the street than it is to find a doctor to perscribe legitimate opiates. I know this, because I have certain health issues that require me to take them for real medicinal purposes. (That's how I knew I was old....I stopped looking for drugs for recreation, and started looking for drugs for medicinal purposes.)
You're familiar with Prilosec, right? It's an acid inhibitor that's used to stop heartburn. When it was perscription only, it was running $3 a pill, not counting the doctor's visit. Now, it's less than $.50 a pill, because it's OTC. That's for the same exact thing that used to cost $3.
Regarding your "but you can hurt yourself!" idea, well, if you take over 4000 mg a day of tylenol (that's just 8 "extra strength" 500 mg capsules), it can kill you. Eat a whole bottle, and you're in SERIOUS trouble. I've yet to meet a pharmaceutical drug that makes somebody more dangerous to themselves or others than Meth or PCP. Yet it's not terribly hard to get them.
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Originally Posted by fuzyfuzer
if you are implying that drugs like perkaset (sp?) should be legalized you are off your rocker these things are controled for a reason it is to protect you because the people that are prescribing the drugs went to school for many years to better understand them. to think that you can handle it because your in college and you know eveything is just downright stupid.
the two reasons they are controled is because if taken improperly there is an extremely high risk of you hurting yourself and and  others. this is also a CYA (cover your ass) move by the corporations. trial lawyers are destroying these companies through secumstantial evedence which brings me to my next point. this isn't a solution at all but maybe a move in the right direction. perhaps we could protect these companies who want to tear them apart like a pack of wolves. these people i am talking about are trial lawyers. trial lawyers cause many problems that are big issues in this country, how can we have any jobs if trial lawyers are allowed to dismantle companies peice by peice when they can more safely be located oversees in a relitively protected zone.
sorry about the rant, i don't hate lawyers and no offense to anyone who is one or is to become one, i only dislike the actions of a select group of them and i understand that like it or not lawyers a necissary part of our country  |