FDA Suddenly Bans Drugs That Have Been On The Market For Decades | Techdirt
One way the drug companies have been coping is to repackage and rebrand health food supplements. Drugs like Lovaza, which is nothing more than the fish oil you can get in health food stores, and lovastatin which has been in use for roughly a thousand years (800 AD) in the form of red yeast rice. In the case of lovastatin, the FDA banned the supplements because they are "identical to a drug and, thus, subject to regulation as a drug." That is very convenient for the drug company, which now charges monopoly rents on the product -- which can increase prices at ridiculous levels.
Methaqualone, Xanax,uppers ,downers, seconal,tuinal,Afrin spray....on and on ...the list of evil, hellspawned ,killer, addictive GOVERNMENT FDA approved drugs since the criminalization of marijuana by Anslinger and the first huge government contract with Dow to provide the troops in WW2 with BIPHETAMINE for every soldier in combat spawned profits so ridiculous it made the ludicrous marijuana jihad an actual political issue to procure and hold power. Hemp has been used by mankind for at least ten thousand years.
This notion that "it's been illegal so now that it's legal doesn't really mean that it wasn't correct to be illegal"...what happy horse*****...a pile 10 stories high. Here's your damn rationalization crammed right back down your blind bat throat...
the whacked out Big Pharm backed right wingers in our government maintained the "Reefer Madness" hysteria for 60 years while they flooded the market with substances so highly addictive that DEATH RESULTS when usage stops. Consider the Big Pharm "cure" for heroin addiction....METHADONE. Once you are on it, you need hospitalization and readdiction to morphine to get off it or YOU DIE! You can't just stop methadone. Pretty neat, huh? 'It's all that marijuana's fault!!! THAT'S the gateway!!!!"
a bunch of blind sheep in this country...and for what it's worth, I don't use marijuana, I rarely take a drink, I do NOT smoke coffin nails and I refuse to take any kind of FDA approved "happy pills"...the biggest joke in US history..."take a Valium, hon...you'll feel better..."....krist...the best high for you and your continued existence is the exercise of your body. Someone a few posts back threw the whole baby boomer generation into one category...nice piece of overt bigotry unchallenged of course. Well, I come from that generation and there was a well known axiom at THAT time that seems to have been forgotten by EVERYBODY....QUESTION AUTHORITY.
Here endeth the rant...for good.I'll take my Patriot fan drugs and get high on the team I love.