Propranolol: no it is not roofies it’s a memory drug

I was cruising around the internet this morning looking for low grade free porn sites like I do every Monday morning. (Okay it sounds much more entertaining than I was reading Monday Morning Quarterback by Peter King.) And I stumbled across this story that 60 Minutes has been working on about propranolol and it being used as a drug that suppresses pain caused by memories.

If you want to watch the video clips of the story you can view them here: Clickie, clickie.

Some of the proponents of the new drug say that this could be a great tool to fight post traumatic stress disorder in troops, a problem which has intensified over the years. Others worry about the misuse of the drug and basically think that we as a nation are way over medicated. (Which I tend to agree with.)

I got to thinking about the pitfalls of the drug and then I realized without a doubt there are some memories of my life I would love to lessen the pain associated with.

-seeing my parents have sex when I was 6
-the time I had a lower GI done
-that time I watched Glitter
-memories of my first girlfriend (really did I need to date someone that seemed to always have a green booger in their nose?)
-the time I fell down the stairs in a lecture center in front of hundreds of other students
-Cop Rock

-the first time I realized that RuPaul was a man

So I have two questions to ask you:

If you could take a drug to lesson the pain of memories, would you?

Is this drug something that is morally and ethically right to take for those without extreme circumstances like post traumatic stress disorder?