[notch656a]

My argument is terrible. That's why yours is found at the bottom, and mine at the top.

Fuck the thieving snakes claiming it is "their" work when an entirely different 3rd party with no prior contract with the pharma snakes uses their own reagents and chemicals and published or reverse engineered synthetic pathway to produce a substance.

"You are free to make your own drugs." I suppose you are, if you're willing to violate the CSA and FDA/DEA regulations, as my comment pertained to being able to buy drugs _someone else_ made in their basement (although I'd also like to include making your own as well).

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Our comments are found in the same place because mine is a reply to yours?

You sounds like a very angry anarchist who doesn't really understand R&D works and what kind of effort is required to put into it.

Why would making your own medicines violate the CSA or DEA regulations? You just looking to get high?

[notch656a]

>Why would making your own medicines violate the CSA or DEA regulations? You just looking to get high?

Maybe you are unaware. Many medicines are controlled substances. Some people are ill and not just looking to get high, although I think getting high is OK too.

>You sounds like a very angry anarchist

Shit, I am an anarchist. I guess you impugned my character and my statements must be irrelevant. Oh wait, that is ad hominem fallacy.

>who doesn't really understand R&D works and what kind of effort is required to put into it.

I am not angry about R&D. R&D I find to be one of the legitimate components of pharma. It takes so many people to bring a drug to market, I don't think you can really understand the complete picture of how R&D works either. But thank you for the arrogant superiority complex. Are you in R&D or something or why do you think I'm attacking researchers? I've continually said (and perhaps this was better reflected on other comments, apologies if not clear enough on my prior) researchers are important to drug development and that they create real value.

It's the regulatory capture, lobbying, insanely high regulatory barriers that enable many pharma businesses to squash new development from competitors that leaves a bad taste in my mouth, corrupt intermingling with FDA and agencies. Amongst other things, but those are some of the larger ones.