[hugh3]

Quite right. My statement was based on my judgement that I (or perhaps other individuals less circumspect than myself) am more likely to die from an inadequately tested drug than from the lack of a drug which would have been invented in an FDAless free-for-all.

Or another scenario: maybe the drug to treat my disease has been invented, but nobody knows about it because it hasn't been properly tested and is competing with thirty other startup drugs (mostly useless, some harmful) which claim to treat the same disease. How is my doctor supposed to magically know which one to prescribe me?

[esspem]

Do not use inadequately tested drugs, buy only FDA approved drugs. Why do you want to forbid other people to buy drugs not approved by FDA?

[dantheman]

The FDA also tests for effectiveness so if a drug isn't effective enough then it doesn't get through.