Today's drug cartels
It seems everyone knows it, but no one will call them on it. I am talking about the pharmaceutical industry, the modern-day drug pushers, drugging an entire nation for whatever behavior it can call illness and make a quick million or two.
Agreed not all of their drugs are this way, only about 90% of them.
In yesterday's LA Times, there is a brilliant opinion piece by Bill Maher, which ends with:
Drug companies are pushers, and Congress and the FDA are the cop on the beat who's been paid to look the other way. New drugs used to have to go through a rigorous process of testing, now they just give it to Courtney Love, and if she lives, it is approved.
By the way, that FDA report about marijuana having no medical value was issued, on purpose, I am sure, on April 20 -- 4/20. That joke only makes sense to stoners. So Mom and Dad, if your kid just laughed, you might need to search his room.
I had to type all of this up. Honest. Because the article mysteriously vanished off the LA Times website!!! Call me a conspiracy theorist, but that's an amazing coincidence...just a day after his story appeared in print.
Update: Here's a letter I sent the Times:
So, someone, albeit a comedian, tells us the truth about drugs, and the Times gets so much flak it decides to remove the article from the website? I hope I am wrong, and this is just a technical glitch but if I am not, shame on the Times for caving in to big Pharma.
2nd Update: here's what the Times wrote back:
Sri, Bill Maher asks that we not post his articles on our website, and we inadvertantly did. When we discovered the error, we removed the story from the site. Most writers give us website reprint rights, but Maher is a notable exception, and we get e-mails every time we run him in the paper asking: Where's my Maher? Sorry about that.
Agreed not all of their drugs are this way, only about 90% of them.
In yesterday's LA Times, there is a brilliant opinion piece by Bill Maher, which ends with:
Drug companies are pushers, and Congress and the FDA are the cop on the beat who's been paid to look the other way. New drugs used to have to go through a rigorous process of testing, now they just give it to Courtney Love, and if she lives, it is approved.
By the way, that FDA report about marijuana having no medical value was issued, on purpose, I am sure, on April 20 -- 4/20. That joke only makes sense to stoners. So Mom and Dad, if your kid just laughed, you might need to search his room.
I had to type all of this up. Honest. Because the article mysteriously vanished off the LA Times website!!! Call me a conspiracy theorist, but that's an amazing coincidence...just a day after his story appeared in print.
Update: Here's a letter I sent the Times:
So, someone, albeit a comedian, tells us the truth about drugs, and the Times gets so much flak it decides to remove the article from the website? I hope I am wrong, and this is just a technical glitch but if I am not, shame on the Times for caving in to big Pharma.
2nd Update: here's what the Times wrote back:
Sri, Bill Maher asks that we not post his articles on our website, and we inadvertantly did. When we discovered the error, we removed the story from the site. Most writers give us website reprint rights, but Maher is a notable exception, and we get e-mails every time we run him in the paper asking: Where's my Maher? Sorry about that.
Michael Soller
Opinion pages
posted by sri at 4:16 PM
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