[AmishDude]

But without the Commerce Clause, what would prevent a pharm. company from developing and selling a drug in their own state, bypassing the FDA?

I'm not asserting that this is such a bad thing, but I can't see any barrier to it.

[holdonnow]

The state government.

[Nyboe]

it would be up that the state that the drug was developed and sold in to regulate it.