posted on March 20, 2002 06:39:33 PM
plsmith: I wasn't spanking you.
NearTheSea: you bring up an interesting topic by accident. I saw a TV investigative report that with drug companies charging US Citizens so high an astronomical price for so many medicines, that smugglers now routinely go to Mexico and purchase the drugs in bluk there and then smuggle them back into the USA. From there, they sell them to pharmacies, who are glad to buy them at such a substancial savings.
Who would have thought of it? Legal drugs being smuggled in from Mexico? Sheese! That ought to tell every skeptic something.
posted on March 20, 2002 06:55:55 PM
ok I'll admit it... I crossed over the border to Vancouver B.C. and bought some codiene, well its got a little codiene in it, those 222's.
"Patiently awaiting a comment from DeSquirrel stating that drugs don't come from trees, either..."
PLEASE, PLEASE tell me that you're not inventing things.
NOWHERE did I say there are no drugs extracted from plants.
Now for the rest of you, I'm going to go VERY SLOW.
1) MOST drugs do not have a plant as a source. Many powerful drugs come from natural sources but of the thousands of drugs in production, the percentage of plant sourced is very small.
2) Now if I take a drug (say an opiate to make krs happy) and squeeze a plant real real hard for it or I synthesize the same structure, it is the same g*d d*** thing.
Now if you think these statements conflict, it's time for that G.E.D.
posted on March 20, 2002 09:49:53 PM"squeeze a plant real real hard for it or I synthesize the same structure, it is the same g*d d*** thing"
Exactly. It's a copycat drug, and a complete waste of money to make when a much simpler course would be to simply buy it from the Taliban, scrunch it into tablets, and present it for it's effect under by any other name it is still but a rose. Which is a plant.
posted on March 20, 2002 10:39:14 PM
desquirrel while I could not avail myself of the services of the dia lama I did however get to sit on a throne, whereupon the mysteries of the universe were expelled and It came to me why a company needs more than one chemist. your not one of these guys that sits around making sure that the pee went in the pot and not the pot in the pee are you ?
posted on March 21, 2002 05:13:47 AM
NearTheSea- Merck's drug Cozaar was found to be 25% more effective than Tenormin in preventing strokes and diabetes. The results will be published this week in a major medical journal.
posted on March 21, 2002 10:35:07 PM
d squirrel Now if I take a drug (say an opiate to make krs happy) and squeeze a plant
real real hard for it or I synthesize the same structure, it is the same g*d
d*** thing.
an orange is the female sex organ of a plant better watch what your squeezing.
