Tell that spendthrift in the WH to stop and maybe there will be some money left for essentials.
Oh? Ok, Charles, no prob; I'll just march up there and tell 'im and then all manner of things will be well. You be in charge of organizing the other 200 million or so Americans to back me up. Deal?
Not a problem, nobody's going to get in front of you.
Lol. Newp, doesn't look like it, does it?
Legalize international drug sales. Problem solved.
I don't think so, Hawk. The issue with the inhalers is due to the EPA's objection to the propellant, if you remember, as contributing to glowball warmink/air pollution or some such crap.
Colchicine, a compound that has been around since pre-history for the treatment of gout and other inflammatory conditions, was recently submitted by URL Pharma in a new FDA program that seeks to put existing drugs that predate the existence of the FDA through the same process new drugs go through in order to receive FDA approval. In exchange for the expense of trials, the company is granted exclusive rights to distribute the once-ubiquitous medicine.
I'm trying to remember if this nonsense of testing older drugs came by way of the UN's Codex Alimentarius or was initiated solely by the FDA, but I recall reading, in addition to the above, that if an existing drug is changed in any way, no matter how minor, every ingredient must be submitted for re-testing and licensing by the FDA.
Get this, from URL's press release:
"For 2000 years, people have been getting sick and dying from colchicine unnecessarily. But this wasn't known until URL Pharma conducted its ground-breaking research that dramatically reduced adverse reactions,identified many critically important drug-drug interactions, and showed how to minimize the risks of these adverse reactions."Yah, okay; I'm not even going to ask how they know that .......