It seems like a weird coincidence that all of the vices you can eat, pop, smoke or inject have bad side affects. You might get lung cancer, liver failure, brain damage, or who-knows-what. At the very least, anything that makes you feel good also makes you drive like 200-year old man wearing a straw hat.
Hypothetically, if someone discovered a drug that made you incredibly happy, and scientists were certain that it had zero negative side effects, would it be legal?
Assume it’s not patentable, and anyone can make as much as they want by grinding up some herbs in a bowl. So no drug company would prosper and no drug dealers would be necessary.
I can’t decide if politicians would make the happiness drug illegal out of force of habit, or they’d jump at the chance to keep the voters doped up. I have to think it would be easy to fund big government if tax hikes made people giggle.
What do you think?