Reply #98: Nitrous Oxide is a drug, not a medicine

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As undesirable as that condition is, it is natural and likely unavoidable if human beings are to survive. Someone passed you through their cervix, did they not? Surely you can have drugs for pain, but to argue against the 'condition' is really absurd...unless you know of some other way to harvest humans.

When you analyze the procedural protocols involved at the FDA, you will realize that medicines which have been scientifically determined to be more efficacious and/or cause fewer unintended side-effects are going to replace medicines which are less efficacious or which cause more side-effects.

The argument that seemed to be popular in this thread was "Well, we can find us a quack who will prescribe the same medication to us for cramps. There's always a way around this." That sort of burrying your head in the sand is not helpful. The doctor will not be able to prescribe that medicine to you for cramps if the republicans get their way. You only need to look at the medical marijuana issue to see that sort of justification. They will insist on your taking marinol, which they claim to be more efficacious and less damaging. You will be more than entitled to your cramp medication, but it won't have the side effects that you are hoping for.