this post was submitted on 31 May 2024
96 points (100.0% liked)
Canada
7185 readers
563 users here now
What's going on Canada?
Communities
π Meta
πΊοΈ Provinces / Territories
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
ποΈ Cities / Local Communities
- Calgary (AB)
- Edmonton (AB)
- Greater Sudbury (ON)
- Halifax (NS)
- Hamilton (ON)
- Kootenays (BC)
- London (ON)
- Mississauga (ON)
- Montreal (QC)
- Nanaimo (BC)
- Oceanside (BC)
- Ottawa (ON)
- Port Alberni (BC)
- Regina (SK)
- Saskatoon (SK)
- Thunder Bay (ON)
- Toronto (ON)
- Vancouver (BC)
- Vancouver Island (BC)
- Victoria (BC)
- Waterloo (ON)
- Winnipeg (MB)
π Sports
Hockey
- List of All Teams: Post on /c/hockey
- General Community: /c/Hockey
- Calgary Flames
- Edmonton Oilers
- MontrΓ©al Canadiens
- Ottawa Senators
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- Vancouver Canucks
- Winnipeg Jets
Football (NFL)
- List of All Teams:
unknown
Football (CFL)
- List of All Teams:
unknown
Baseball
- List of All Teams:
unknown - Toronto Blue Jays
Basketball
- List of All Teams:
unknown - Toronto Raptors
Soccer
- List of All Teams:
unknown - General Community: /c/CanadaSoccer
- Toronto FC
π» Universities
π΅ Finance / Shopping
- Personal Finance Canada
- BAPCSalesCanada
- Canadian Investor
- Buy Canadian
- Quebec Finance
- Churning Canada
π£οΈ Politics
- Canada Politics
- General:
- By Province:
π Social and Culture
Rules
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'm honestly surprised the pharmaceutical companies aren't championing the cause to legalize mushrooms so they can corner the market on them.
Can't patent them, so it isn't as lucrative a revenue stream as something they have exclusive rights to. Whether or not it works is always secondary.
Pharmaceuticals are a money making business .... their secondary role is medical care ... if we allowed them and gave them the patents, they would be happy to sell and distribute cocaine and heroin if it meant they could profit from it.
Heroin was originally developed as a pharmaceutical, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is still being manufactured and distributed as such somewhere in the world. Morphine has certainly never gone out of style.
That makes it kind of value-neutral. If they want to make IP money, they could always develop a slightly enhanced derivative.
I don't know, I don't buy the "miracle herbs" thing. It seems like a ploy for people selling herbs more than anything.
The difficulty in patenting and mass producing bacteriaphages is the reason we don't have them available in Western countries. But they are available in other places like Russia.
Bacteriaphages would be a huge boon to dealing with antibiotic resistant strains.
I thought bacteriophages were used against antibiotic-resistant infections, not cluster headaches.
I believe they were using it as an example of failure to corner the market, that is, in reply to the previous person's comment and not directly to the main post.
Not talking about cluster headaches