I’m quite ignorant of FDA rules, but my understanding is that if a new drug has great potential for helping cancer patients, it may be many years before it is approved for general use. You can’t give the cancer drug to dying people because they might die. So for 5-10 years they experiment on animals and in careful trials to make sure that the dying people won’t be killed by the medicine that could save their life.
But sex re-assignment drugs? Open the floodgates! Give it to the kids! Hand ‘em out like candy! They are kind of experimental, and we probably haven’t sexually reassigned a lot of rabbits or primates, but what the heck? Give ‘em a whirl and let me know if they have awful side affects down the road!
I think in this case, all these drugs are just hormones that have long been FDA approved for other treatments. They are just applying the existing hormones in new ways, so since they are already approved for human use, it’s probably just a matter of medical ethics and not something the FDA is going to get involved in.
People die not only from lung cancer but also heart attacks, strokes, emphysema, and on and on yet now the push to get pot legalized in every state.
If smoking filtered cigarettes kills, what does smoking unfiltered weed do to anyone?
And what about all the deaths from second hand tobacco smoke, does pot smoke nullify those around the pothead?