That’s just up the road from Madame Chang’s House of Magick Spyrits, where some chicken bones and a dash of powdered yak bladder will cure everything from warts to hammertoe.
This is the transition to third-world homebrew remedies coming with the full realization of Obamacare. Of course, modern pharmaceuticals will still be available for the elite.
People here will construe this as a natural extension of Obamacare fallout —perhaps it is, but a LOT of herbs really do work, and big pharma freaking hates it.
To earn, you must PATENT medication and to do that you impart UNIQUE value to some treatment that has gone through very lengthy and epxnsive clinical trials —most medications require 11 years and $1.1 billion to do that.
Pharmas cannot patent herbs, ergo they’re simply not interested.
But LOTS and lots of herbs do work.
This is bad news for the FDA cronies.