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> Who knows what using these plant medicines across a population would result in statistically?

A lot of deaths:

https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/07/02/dietary-supple...

> The inspection reports portray an industry struggling to meet basic manufacturing standards, from verifying the identity of the ingredients that go into its products to inspecting finished batches of supplements.

> Some firms don't even have recipes, known as master manufacturing records, for their products.

> Others make their supplements in unsanitary factories. New Jersey-based Quality Formulation Laboratories produced protein powder mixes and other supplements in a facility infested with rodents, rodent feces and urine, according to government records. FDA inspectors found a rodent apparently cut in half next to a scoop, according to a 2008 inspection report.

> we don't know because there's no money to be made in it.

Lots of people are making lots of money selling this stuff. It's a huge industry.