(but what would be the effects of making potentially dangerous medications freely available?)
Well, you can already walk into any hardware store and buy all sorts of deadly poisons, no questions asked. So my guess would be not much, except they’d be a lot cheaper.
The conceptual gap between a standard use of a poison from a hardware store and a deadly use is much larger than the gap between a standard use and a deadly use of a medication, so I would expect far more tragedies to come from the medication than from the hardware store poison.
Nobody’s going to self-diagnose and inject themselves with poison from a hardware store.
Well, you can already walk into any hardware store and buy all sorts of deadly poisons, no questions asked. So my guess would be not much, except they’d be a lot cheaper.
The conceptual gap between a standard use of a poison from a hardware store and a deadly use is much larger than the gap between a standard use and a deadly use of a medication, so I would expect far more tragedies to come from the medication than from the hardware store poison.
Nobody’s going to self-diagnose and inject themselves with poison from a hardware store.