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I think OP meant to say, these are not drugs is not something you can OD with easily and kill yourself, not that they are side effect free .



In many cases they have induced suicide. There are many ways something can be unsafe.


There are many ways to regulate too. SSRIs are not OTC for the same reason.

There are many drugs a GP can prescribe that are just as dangerous or more so.

There is a reason SSRI are schedule 4 and not schedule 2 . They cannot kill you the same way [1]

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[1] While there is a lot of politics in the classification and putting weed or LSD in schedule 1 is very questionable the list is generally medically accurate.




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