• psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    14 days ago

    I highly suggest you look at the history of medicine leading up to and into late 1800s and early 1900s

    There’s a reason why we have regulations, and those reasons are horrifying.

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      14 days ago

      This movement isn’t suggesting we do away with regulation. It is providing options for people who literally have NO access to life changing medication because of the for-profit pharmaceutical industry.

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        13 days ago

        I know, but the risk of injury is so high, and the history of medical snake-oil salesmen exploiting the desperate is long and bloody.

        This is like letting people build shanty-towns to deal with the housing shortage: it helps in the short-term, but the chance or harm is huge and it takes energy away from dealing with the real issue.