Posted on 04/17/2017 10:45:52 AM PDT by LTC.Ret
Quote the article: "Prosecutors in Belgium have recently announced that executives with pharmaceutical companies based in the country will be charged with knowingly providing drug cartels with prescription drugs that were used to manufacture methamphetamine. . . . accused of providing the Mexican drug kingpin Ezio Figueroa Vazquez with several tons of ephedrine . . . seven executives who were charged with crimes . . . company made two shipments of two million pills containing pseudoephedrine in 2006 . . . big pharma drug Adderall is nearly identical to crystal meth . . .the only place to get massive quantities of a substance like ephedrine would be a pharmaceutical company . . . they are making millions of dollars on the deal."
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I don’t think you have a firm grasp of the situation. My analogy is proper.
Pain as a vital sign was a bad idea and was pushed by many.
Yeah, that's exactly why the store clerks don't care when I give them a mini-rant. I understand.
When they first patented pseudoephedrine, they patented 2 versions. One version was a corkscrew shaped molecule that had a right handed twist shape, the other had a left handed twist. As decongestants, there was no difference. They were equal in effectivity. Here’s the rub. One can be further processed to create methamphetamine, the other can’t. The drug company decided it would be more cost effective to use the version that had dual functionality rather than the one that could only be used a a decongestant.
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Article and comments, esp #1
The pharmaceutical manufacturers have been complicit in the epidemic we are now facing
Thanks, LTC.Ret
Both companies mentioned, Sterop and Andacon, are Belgium companies. Since their government believes in open borders and the destruction of countries, it should surprise on one that these companies should care what happens to humans around the globe.
You used to be able to get codeine cough medicine just by signing your name. No prescription required.
It seems to me that Cartels have enough money the manufacture their own ingredients.
My grasp on the situation is that no one has a good reason to do drugs. No one forces them to start.
Should the nanny government always be that eye?
It used to be that the eye was God. That was still understood well enough that there was no significant abuse problem in 1900 in America.
We’re looking at what happens when we try to give the eye of God to a government. All kinds of foul-ups and unintended consequences. Only a police state could really manage this.
We jokingly named our all white bird Walter White. It stuck so now we refer to him as ‘The Heisenbird’.
This comment of yours presages an important point. Mercy will be squeezed out of legitimate medicine to people who would never dream of getting a street drug... until they meet the frustration that this increased policing will cause.
If you make bats and sell them in bulk to street gangs who only play basketball, you’re just as guilty as they are.
You run a retail store. Should you police everyone who walks in and buys a bat, or a hammer, or ... ?
This quickly grows to ridiculous proportions. All because you won’t deal with the situation of the people who wanted the gangs.
We aren’t talking about some poor soul behind a counter.This is about some high up corporate suits knowingly aiding murderers and thugs just to boost sales.
Well, for starters we need some confirmation of the accusation. The problem is that such “Reefer Madness” is often taken as gospel without even being vetted.
People shouldn’t willfully invest in sin. But they can’t police all of it either without warping their missions into being universal police.
The issues of the Meth epidemic is serious and troubling...Breaking Bad was the best TV of its genre that I have ever seen beside the Sopranos.
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