I am in favor of legalizing and regulating all drugs, including the nasty ones and the ones currently legal but not regulated as I'd like to see. That is, to get any mind- or body- altering substance, you should have to go to a pharmacy (the way you have to go to liquor stores now). Pharmacists should keep records as they already do and say things like If you take that, it will interact with this other thing. It is then the customer's choice to do it anyway. If there is a bad outcome, they have the same problem as drunk drivers - they have committed a crime and gotten caught. Right now I take 3 separate prescription drugs, but if I want Niquil I can just go get it, hardly safe, that is. As it is I always call my pharmacist (whom I think is sending several children through college on me alone!) and ask if I'm already taking X Y and Z, what happens if I take this one too. Not to mention all the taxes the gubmint would collect selling these, the way they do with cigs and booze.

Unclear what was narrow-minded in the above, oh well, irrelevent I guess...