[Mark Felton]

Actually, I did not have in mind that the harder drugs would be over the counter, like alcohol.

I was thinking that the harder drugs should be handled more like prescription medicines.

If we can limit prescription drug use on grounds of safety then we certainly can limit rec drug use for same reasons.

But we should not limit rec drug use on grounds that people should not use them for personal recreation.

[robertpaulsen]

"I was thinking that the harder drugs should be handled more like prescription medicines."

So a heroin user or a cocaine user or a methamphetamine user would get a prescription from a doctor?

I see all kinds of problems with that, especially legal liability, physician ethics, and patient privacy. I don't want the government to know I do heroin.