I'm going to be as delicate as I can about what I say next because it could get me in a lot of trouble. My first "proper" job was for a pharmaceuticals company. The second job, and the one I still have, still involves pharmacists but isn't directly in pharmaceutical manufacture.
Pharmaceutical companies, like any other, exist to make profit. The most profit that can be had is with a patient who requires expensive drugs and doesn't get better. Where a cheap drug will cure, research is supressed until as much money as possible has been wrung out of the expensive drugs which merely treat the symptoms. Patients die because of this.
It's for this very reason that I'm amazed pharmaceuticals companies aren't working on custom narcotics like those I originally described. It's a pharmaco CEO's wet dream. I can only assume there are regulations in place because it's seen as a rather seedy business to be manufacturing recreational drugs.
And this, for me, is the problem. I would relax those regulations immediately, before I would slacken drug laws. For reasons I can only guess at, the current status quo is obviously attractive enough to someone in power that they won't mess with it.
Opponents of drug legalization, what are your reasons?
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I'm going to be as delicate as I can about what I say next because it could get me in a lot of trouble. My first "proper" job was for a pharmaceuticals company. The second job, and the one I still have, still involves pharmacists but isn't directly in pharmaceutical manufacture.
Pharmaceutical companies, like any other, exist to make profit. The most profit that can be had is with a patient who requires expensive drugs and doesn't get better. Where a cheap drug will cure, research is supressed until as much money as possible has been wrung out of the expensive drugs which merely treat the symptoms. Patients die because of this.
It's for this very reason that I'm amazed pharmaceuticals companies aren't working on custom narcotics like those I originally described. It's a pharmaco CEO's wet dream. I can only assume there are regulations in place because it's seen as a rather seedy business to be manufacturing recreational drugs.
And this, for me, is the problem. I would relax those regulations immediately, before I would slacken drug laws. For reasons I can only guess at, the current status quo is obviously attractive enough to someone in power that they won't mess with it.