If You Build Sell It, They Will Come
Looks like Bob Dole is on his way out as the pinup boy for Viagra (and baseball slugger Rafael Palmeiro can extend his contract). The Reuters account hotlinked to above suggests that there's no clear dividing line between drugs of pleasure and drugs of necessity. We'd have a far more realistic and interesting discourse on drugs is we talked about them all–licit and illicit, legal and illegal, medical and recreational–in a way that stressed individuals' desires for self-empowerment, improvement, and the like.