[Grizzled Bear]

$100 in Mexico, expensive here because of the cost of clinical trials our FDA required to prove an known good drug works on gringos as well as it works on ‘those other people’.

Like Thalidomide ?

[sphinx]

Thalidomide was tested. If I recall correctly, it slipped through because it turns out to be a human specific mutagen, so the animal tests didn’t turn up anything, and because the incidence of damage was slight enough that it took time for a pattern to be recognized.