If you want to understand the motive behind FDA and DEA policies, you shouldn't ask what is the morally correct thing to do, but rather what will be the most profitable for the pharmaceutical industry. The morally correct thing to do is to allow individuals exclusive control over what they put in their own bodies i.e. to not breach self-ownership. However, this is not the most profitable thing to do since medicinal herbs like kratom cannot be patented and sold at exorbitant prices like Oxycontin and other prescription opioids which, unlike kratom, claim thousandsof lives per year. We must also be mindful of the private prison industry's cut of the fleecing; their bottom line matters too. With violent crime rates at a 50 year low, the government must criminalize more victim-less activities to ensure that they meet lockup quotas, or else the private corrections corporations might sue them for breach of contract. And if you take a careful look at other industries and trades, you'll notice that a pattern will emerge that is not merely an accident, but is there by design. The capitalist system does not operate for the benefit of common people, but rather the political class at the expense of the common people.
Philosophically inclined and politically affiliated with the American Solidarity Party. I agree with the right on some issues, the left on others, but focus on the blind spots that neither of them seem to care about: mainly our civil rights and economic opportunities. Irreligious but not apathetic about the big questions of life and death. Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events and stupid minds discuss people.
Monday, September 5, 2016
The Red Tape Times (article 8)
The DEA has placed a temporary ban on Kratom, making it a schedule 1 drug under the CSA.
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