Putting up a rent-seeking middleman between a person and a drug makes the drug harder to obtain. It’s also insulting. The idea that someone else, some officious busybody, gets to dictate what you do with your body has no basis in any coherent moral system ever concocted. You are entitled to regulate drugs, to demand that the label is “correct.” You are not entitled to stop anyone from ingesting them. That is a profound violation of human autonomy.
This makes no sense. I’m not allowed to ingest medicine because you intend to date rape people?
As for antibiotic resistance — sure! If there’s a medicine whose consumption on the individual level has some sort of effect on others, then you get to regulate it. My ingestion of anti-depressants has zero impact on anybody except me. Face it, a thousand years from now an enlightened humanity will look back on things like our bizarre corporate prescription system and think we were unethical baboons.
Your argument has been that you do care what plants I eat by virtue of your defense of our corporate prescription system, whose purpose is to put people who eat plants without permission in prison. Remember?