[ExI] medical marijuana

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> --- On Tue, 7/13/10, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>> Sure isn't.  I would counterpropose that we pay the
>> price another way.  We
>> make most medications over-the-counter accessible, without
>> a doctor's help
>> if the prole chooses to go that route.  With every
>> medication comes
>> literature that carefully explains the known risks, and the
>> caveat that if a
>> prole takes this stuff and does it wrong, she might be
>> injured or seriously
>> killed, buyer beware.
>
> That's been tried in other fields, notably software
> engineering.
>
> A) Most such users do not Read The F(ine) Manual.
>
> B) They sue - and sometimes win - when they get hurt anyway.
> (Thus EULAs, in an attempt to ward off the most blatant of
> these.)
>
> C) In the case of medicine, many products affect one's
> ability to make rational judgments - thus, the product
> makes it more likely that you would overdose yourself, with
> potentially fatal effects.
>

### Users do not have to read the manual - they can call the IT
department, and the smart ones do it before they spend money or monkey
around the BIOS. Same applies to drug users. No need to have a
Department of Safe Software, making sure nobody gets to use programs
except ones verified by indifferent programmers hired on governement
money to check things they don't care about, like the FDA.

Rafal