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2. The FDA has no credibility
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:47 PM
Apr 2016

The FDA is essentially a rogue government agency that basically fronts for the pharma cartel.
Exhibit 1 has to be FDA's Drug Schedule which conveniently places all the substances that pharma doesn't peddle as the worst of the worst Schedule 1 drugs.
Pharma's lucrative poisons like opioids and other highly addictive, deadly junk can be found in schedule 2 or 3. No matter that the latter are responsible for upwards of 40,000 deaths a year in the U.S., which is about upwards of 40,000 deaths more than most Schedule 1 substances, including, infamously, marijuana.
The FDA claims that they are "protecting and promoting your health" - a hideously fallacious line of crap that belies the agencies real intent to prop up the legal (thanks to the FDA) drug pushers who can give a rats ass for our health.
It is well past the point of arguing for the complete legalization of marijuana which should of occured decades ago. but we will see this happen as soon as the cartel completes their pro-formas for it's profit.


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