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No? People should be allowed to decide that shit for themselves. It's not anyone's job to hold your fucking hand when you can just read the label.
As shown above, they don't read the label. Ironically, you didn't even read the screenshot that's the cause of all of this - which disproves your point entirely.
Yeah, problem is people cannot be relied upon to read the label. People are idiots. So it's a good suggestion to put a gatekeeper (pharmacist) in front of the dangerous stuff to walk people through the dangers verbally.
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Yeah that's what US Americans call "freedom", but in other places that's not what it means. Where do you draw the line? Should people be allowed to buy opiods from the supermarket?
Yes, Tylenol #3 is otc in many countries
In all seriousness though providing drug users a route to buying drugs that were safely and reliably manufactured would both significantly lower harm and significantly limit the impact of cartels (see how they switched to controlling avocado trades as they are now losing the ultra lucrative marijuana market). Further, by not forcing users to go underground for their trade you could not connect them to resources for rehabilitation much more easily and earlier in the process of addiction
So yes you should unironically be able to buy safely manufactured heroin and cocaine and fentanyl in a store. Maybe not the grocery store, but a store