2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: CBS poll: 51% of Millennials voting either Republican or Libertarian (white women only 49%) [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And they have a vested interest in blocking out competition; we've seen that in Arizona with Fentanyl manufacturers backing anti-pot legalization. I suspect it is in the mix with the DEA trying to make Kratom schedule I.
But we also have a situation, now, where legitimate pain patients are suffering because we have this desire to "crack down on the prescription drug crisis", right? So not only are people with pain mgt. needs suffering, but the people who are inclined to abuse; and some pain patients as well- move into the illegal black market.
So really you come up against the situation where you have to weigh whether it's more important to keep people from getting an unauthorized buzz than to treat people in pain with compassion.
In terms of a profit motive, also, things like heroin and cocaine are fundamentally not that expensive to produce. It is the prohibitionary market and related forces, along with things like drug companies cornering the legal market, that keep prices inflated.
I don't know what the exact answer is, either.