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The US state of Montana is to allow people to buy experimental drugs and treatments, that haven't yet been FDA approved.
(www.technologyreview.com)
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It used to be the way the world was. The result was huge amounts of addiction (laudanum was 10% opium), and gullible people being peddled snake oil.
The snake-oil part is solved by prohibiting scientifically unproven claims. Laudanum was sold as a cure-all; obviously as a society we don't want to allow opiates to be marketed for everything from allopecia to zika.
Mexico's pharma industry works like this to some extent. You can walk into a .mx pharmacy and get yourself antibiotics, boner pills, a CPAP machine, hormonal birth control, and much much more without a doctor's note. Purity doesn't seem to be a big problem; you generally don't have to worry that it might be 10% opium or whatever. International travelers can bring up to 3 months' personal supply back to the U.S., which would be tricky if border officials' drug-sniffing dogs routinely flagged contaminant drugs of concern in medication inspections.
Which is why we should have a public healthcare system which then it makes sense to have the limits but with a system of its all on you well maybe you get by with opium because the cure is to expensive. I mean how much addiction back then was folks dealing with constant pain from how shitty society was back then?