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Isn't this a perfect situation to use class action?
I'm not sure how you'd identify participants. Medical privacy rules would prevent you from taking the typical "this consumer product causes warts so we'll find everyone on record of having bought one" approach.
They've been able to do it before.
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Actually the opposite. Government regulations outlaw cheap non-dangerous alternatives (like cannabis) and create a monopoly by granting patents to a single entity. https://qz.com/1125690/big-pharma-is-taking-advantage-of-pat... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/outdated-treatments-and-dr... The solution is to make cannabis legal for everybody in every state for medical use and since it cannot be patented there will b…
I don't know, dude. If you are talking of using camnnabis for medical use, I'm gonna want a dosage guideline and strength/purity promises. I'm pretty sure for medical use, it will more closely resemble ibuprofen or cough medicine if it is without prescription. With prescription it'll be more like generics. It might still be a monopoly, since these drugs have to go through all the FDA testing. Heck, if you want fluori…
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Actually the opposite. Government regulations outlaw cheap non-dangerous alternatives (like cannabis) and create a monopoly by granting patents to a single entity. https://qz.com/1125690/big-pharma-is-taking-advantage-of-pat... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/outdated-treatments-and-dr... The solution is to make cannabis legal for everybody in every state for medical use and since it cannot be patented there will b…
Other countries without legal cannabis haven't had the same problem with opioid medication.
I cannot understand why the Government is not acting against the pharmas profiting from this crisis. And why people are not revolting. There is a clear nexus between pharmas and doctors. Something should be done.
>I cannot understand why the Government is not acting against the pharmas profiting from this crisis. $$$ > And why people are not revolting. Drugs are an effective and subtle form of chemical warfare. They keep the people docile and apathetic.
Marijuana should be legal. That it is a schedule 1 narcotic and that we put people in prison for decades and even life is immoral. https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/life-sentence-ma...
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That's theoretical, infirect future money, not real tangibld, here and now money provided by companies who profit off the war on drugs.
Totally: http://fortune.com/2016/12/13/colorado-billion-legal-marijua...
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I'm not sure how you'd identify participants. Medical privacy rules would prevent you from taking the typical "this consumer product causes warts so we'll find everyone on record of having bought one" approach.
Have you or a loved one been diagnosed with mesothelioma? Received a vaginal mesh implant? Taken the drug Risperdal? They've been able to do it before.
Also, what are we really looking for? Do addicts really know whether they were overprescribed? Is being addicted sufficient cause for a lawsuit?
Anyway, I'm not saying it's unsolvable, but I can imagine some tougher hurdles than the class action suits I've been privy to.
I find it endlessly hilarious that nobody in the US is asking WHY Why are people taking drugs? The country needs to do some serious soul searching. Won't happen though.
1. Pain being identified as a vital sign and hospitals/institutions new-found focus on tracking and treating pain
2. Deceptive pharmaceutical marketing that painkillers are a be-all solution to pain and also non-addictive (Purdue/Sackler seem to be worst offenders here)
This lead to doctors prescribing opioid painkillers to many of middle-class americans who would likely have otherwise not come in contact with drug addiction. The book so far has been a really good read and also goes into detail around how heroin started spreading through the rust belt as well (feeding on the existing prescription addiction). I highly recommend it (about 65% through it right now).
I cannot understand why the Government is not acting against the pharmas profiting from this crisis. And why people are not revolting. There is a clear nexus between pharmas and doctors. Something should be done.
Our culture intentionally pacifies and rounds off edges. Of course nobody is revolting.
Doves want drugs. A smart business wolf constructs a sophisticated machine (business) that in order to sell drugs, hires genius level lawyers and chemists (techie wolves) to do an end-run around the law, strengthen legal and technical barriers-to-entry, and perhaps make a good side-business with private law-enforcement in several ways (make new addicts, fund recovery programs, sell recovery drugs, and also sell private prison services, which is the most lucrative of all).
It's thoroughly, blatantly evil. The law is clearly insufficient to control the wolves - it may even be that US democracy is insufficient to control the wolves, since doves can't even be counted on to vote in their own interest, thanks in no small part to being mentally disabled by the wolves.
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Other countries without legal cannabis haven't had the same problem with opioid medication.
Did they have the same regulation like the US? No? I guess you are trying to prove my point. :)
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