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Originally Posted by Max Cut
Curious why pharma lobbyists worked against it.
If it's true that they did, it would be because it's a natural product. Anything occurring in nature can't be patented, which means it's impossible to make serious money from. The pharm industry's approach to this is either: 1) slightly modify the compound so that they can patent it or 2) try to discredit it or otherwise bury it. So while it's true that there's a bias against natural products in the industry, that also doesn't mean that every single product that doesn't make it from lab results into medical use was killed by the system, mannnn.