An anrchist takes on big pharma

[houston]

Originally Posted by TakingDominion

America has a drug problem...and it's not an ILLEGAL drug problem. We've got too many people on anti-depressants and other mood-altering drugs. We need a spiritual revival like never before. I pray it starts with me in my city.

She was discussing the opioid crisis. Not the snowflake crisis.

[Amanah]

We can't trust the Government to take care of us. We can't even blindly trust the health care industry, they will give you an addiction for profit.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Amanah

Ex-DEA agent: Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and Congress

In the midst of the worst drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to keep addictive opioids off U.S. streets was derailed -- that according to Joe Rannazzisi, one of the most important whistleblowers ever interviewed by 60 Minutes. Rannazzisi ran the DEA's Office of Diversion Control, the division that regulates and investigates the pharmaceutical industry. Now in a joint investigation by 60 Minutes and The Washington Post, Rannazzisi tells the inside story of how, he says, the opioid crisis was allowed to spread -- aided by Congress, lobbyists, and a drug distribution industry that shipped, almost unchecked, hundreds of millions of pills to rogue pharmacies and pain clinics providing the rocket fuel for a crisis that, over the last two decades, has claimed 200,000 lives.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-dea-...-and-congress/

This world's system will get what's coming to it. God will destroy the wicked in flaming vengeance with the very fire of His coming.

So glad this world is not my home.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

You realize that it would be almost impossible for a private citizen to do this?
Even a trained scientist would be hard pressed to put together a private lab in his home and do this.
Also, you realize that this is basically theft, right?
The companies that discovered/invented these drugs spent major dollars to do so.
Now, you want to take the end result of their labor and use it.
It is the same thing as software theft.

Those poor, poor pharmaceutical companies. I agree with Michael Laufer, when he said:

“To deny someone access to a lifesaving medication is murder."

He might be a thief. But he's no murderer.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by TakingDominion

America has a drug problem...and it's not an ILLEGAL drug problem. We've got too many people on anti-depressants and other mood-altering drugs. We need a spiritual revival like never before. I pray it starts with me in my city.

Amen.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Amanah

We can't trust the Government to take care of us. We can't even blindly trust the health care industry, they will give you an addiction for profit.

There should be laws preventing the collusion of these industries with the government, limiting contributions, and limiting influence. Oh, wait. There were at one time. All hail to the reality of corporate personhood!

[jediwill83]

whats crazy is that pot was once demonized as a "gateway drug" and now its being used as an "exit drug" to get off of opioid dependency.up to April of 2016 had seen 250,000 deaths of opioid overdoses.Opiods 250,000 Pot 0 not counting instances of impaired judgement.

"No, that plant that you would have to smoke 1500 pounds in 15 minutes to be lethal is bad but Id be glad to refill your scrip for oxy."

Yeah...people need Jesus...they need a church that walks in power and wields the authority its been given.

Oxy and pot have I none but such as I have give I thee....In the name of Jesus Christ....

[aegsm76]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Those poor, poor pharmaceutical companies. I agree with Michael Laufer, when he said:

“To deny someone access to a lifesaving medication is murder."

He might be a thief. But he's no murderer.

Appealing to emotion is not really addressing the issue.

[aegsm76]

Originally Posted by Aquila

There should be laws preventing the collusion of these industries with the government, limiting contributions, and limiting influence. Oh, wait. There were at one time. All hail to the reality of corporate personhood!

Now that I can agree with.
Corporations have the same rights as people.
I do not believe the framers intended that.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

Now that I can agree with.
Corporations have the same rights as people.
I do not believe the framers intended that.

They absolutely did not intend for this.

In fact, I firmly believe that this "corporate personhood" thing is the single greatest threat to our democracy. And so, those politicians who favor corporations and corporate power under the guise of being "free market" are truly the one's who pose the greatest danger to our republic.

And when corporations buy politicians to pass laws that favor their agenda, corner the market, and penalize the competition, I don't believe one can truly call that a "free market" anyway.

Strict rules should be applied to limit corporate power. Especially if we want to truly take our democracy back to the way it was intended to be. However, let anyone propose such things and they are instantly labeled and ridiculed as a socialist.