>Prescriptions would be pointless since consenting adults could just sell/trade them.
A good chunk of the population operates this way right now. Also why pay a $150 kickback to doctors just to write something on a pad that probably shouldn't require a prescription in the first place?
That's an American complaint about an American problem. Basic healthcare in the rest of the developed world functions ok, unlike the US.
And why the US created that setup (between the 1960s-80s) is a political discussion.
We're straying from the general premise here about about abolishing any legal limits on pharmaceuticals. Or else, we're changing the topic to an argument-from-consequences based on the idiosyncrasies of US healthcare and its costs.
A good chunk of the population operates this way right now. Also why pay a $150 kickback to doctors just to write something on a pad that probably shouldn't require a prescription in the first place?