Also why are issues past an arbitrarily-drawn "medical" line the only ones we can treat via medication?
No one thinks working out should be illegal. So why should doing the same thing via other means be illegal?
Maybe it's the lingering Protestant-work-ethic-laced morality of the U.S., but we seem to be disproportionately likely to exaggerate the dangers of anything that seems like a drug, relative to things that don't seem like drugs (even when they clearly are -- i.e., alcohol).
No one thinks working out should be illegal. So why should doing the same thing via other means be illegal?
Maybe it's the lingering Protestant-work-ethic-laced morality of the U.S., but we seem to be disproportionately likely to exaggerate the dangers of anything that seems like a drug, relative to things that don't seem like drugs (even when they clearly are -- i.e., alcohol).