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    Debating on how to regulate drugs

    Your "anectodotal evidence" is one isolated report, I found no "Canadian research" and the only research I found on cannabis and thyroid disease was with "HYPER-THYROIDISM". The chemicals are hormone replacement - eating a plant would only work if it was hormone replacement. I have...
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    Debating on how to regulate drugs

    You know very well that these products are not produced intra state. They are produced in one location (perhaps even out of the country) and distributed nationally.
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    Debating on how to regulate drugs

    Well, I'm Hypo-thyroid and have serious asthma so I'd be dead without them. I f you want to rely on natural substances, fine, but don't take all the protection away from the drug market, some of us need them to live. By the way, here's another good example of patent medicine from Wikipedia...
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    Debating on how to regulate drugs

    This is what removal of the FDA would result in: History of quack medicine http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/library/exhibits/patentmed/history/history.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause Personally, I believe preventing toxic substances from being sold across state lines as...
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    Debating on how to regulate drugs

    Bull, even the doctors have to engage in trial and error, and if you want to be safe you get all your scrips filled at the same pharmacy and go over side effects with the pharmacist on each new prescription because they know more than the doctors. Many conditions can not be controlled with diet...
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    Debating on how to regulate drugs

    Simple answer - interstate commerce. It would be uselessly redundant. As for the anarchy thing - it is the only conclusion when you insist on extreme solutions. Most folks would not insist on extreme solutions, however.
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    Debating on how to regulate drugs

    And you must not be aware of how much damage was done by unregulated food stuffs and medicines before the FDA.... If you don't believe the FDA can be run for the benefit of the people, then why should you believe any other agency of the government can be run for the benefit of the people...
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    Debating on how to regulate drugs

    Not all consumers have a PHD in chemistry or a medical degree which is what it takes to evaluate some drugs. Getting rid of the FDA would be absurd. Just clean it up.
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    Debating on how to regulate drugs

    You don't really want to go back to the era of the medicine show do you? The FDA has a legitimate function in interstate commerce. It's just a simple question - is it being run for the benefit of the people of the benefit of the corporations? Start running the FDA on legitimate science for...
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    Alcoholism: How to deal with it.

    Get a sleep study done - you could be self medicating for a physical condition.
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    Dating Problems? - Let me help (FREE)

    Ever hear of a "loss leader" - bait 'em in with something that's free then hit them with the page that asks for the visa/mastercard.
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    Dating Problems? - Let me help (FREE)

    If you even begin to understand women, NOTHING covers EVERYTHING and you know it. 30 minutue phone coaching may cover the first shut down by a woman you want to connect with - but it may take 10 or 20 more to find the "rignt" one and those will be on your tab. This guy is under the delusion...
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    Dating Problems? - Let me help (FREE)

    R-e-s-p-e-c-t If you believe that it takes anything more than that and you can't figure out how do deliver under your own power, you'll never get there . Don't waste your money on the other crap...
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    Jon Stewart in High Form-

    Marriage can not be privatized unless it is contracted out out to each individual justice of the peace or religious group for profit. Marriage must be definded as a moral concept with moral grounds (which is a consensus of opinion amongst those willing to hold forth as moral authorities) ...
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    Jon Stewart in High Form-

    Marriage can not be privatized unless it is contracted out out to each individual justice of the peace for prersonal profit. Marriage must be defined as a moral concept with moral grounds (which is a consensus of opinion amongst those willing to hold forth as moral authorities) ; or a...
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