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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Now get big pharma out of psychedelic research and ban them from lining the pockets of fda employees.

To clarify im all for psychedelics, and want them legal. But if big pharma gets in the way they'll ruin our natural plant based medicine. For example they are trying to create a psilocybin drug to take without euphoric or hallucinagenic properties and without those the experience is completely ruined. Shrooms and other psychedelics work for ptsd, anxiety because of these experiences, you cant have a good experience without them

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

this drug cures the common cold, side effects may include:ᶜᵃⁿᶜᵉʳ,ᵐᵃʲᵒʳˢᶦᶜᵏⁿᵉˢˢ,ᵈᵉᵃᵗʰ,ˡᶦᵐᵇˢᶠᵃˡˡᶦⁿᵍᵒᶠᶠ,ˢᵖᵒⁿᵗᵃⁿᵉᵒᵘˢᶜᵒᵐᵇᵘˢᵗᶦᵒⁿ

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking PUH-LEEZE! If I have to see another plaque psoriasis ad during my dinner time viewing of Love After Lockup, I’m gonna blow chunks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

we just had a no kings protests.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

srsly wtf bernie

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tackling the real issues I see.
Anything to get out of having to explain why he never once used the word genocide.
Rat

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/05/25/sanders-israel-gaza-genocide/

“What we should be focusing on is ending the destruction and changing policy,” he said. “Let’s be clear, 52,000 people have been killed, mostly women and children. Over 100,000 have been wounded with the entire infrastructure destroyed. That is horrible. That is barbaric. That is the concern we have but some people want to argue about a word which the United Nations is now working to define.”

Seems like a good choice, not letting people waste time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This rat nas NEVER used the word genocide, and never missed a chache to say shitrahell has a right to defend itself or condemn Hamas.
Also invariably blames only 'the Netanyahoo government' and not the eternal evil entity, as if that would change if he's gone.

Edit: and he's also saying protest should be non-violent so that nothing will change.
Never votes for anything useful unless it won't make a difference with 90+% against.

His mask has been off for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

what slimy coward

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

it's unbelievable that the us has straight up drug ads to consumers

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

At least we're not the only one! Iirc new Zealand does/did as well

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

world most overpriced drugs, and ads.

in most of the world that would be a ridiculously sci fi dystopia that no one would think is possible

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Ask your doctor if Phuckettal is right for you today!"

No. The doctor should be telling me what I need; not me telling them what I want. It's not a fucking candy store. Not only do I hate the ads, I hate not knowing with certainty if I am being prescribed something because I need it or if the pharma company that makes the drug simply pays the doctor to prescribe it. 😬

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Great start.

Advertising in general should be illegal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

But but how will companies convince you their shity quality products is what everyone is buying??

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

LMFAO. Yeah that will totally pass. The billionaire class totally wants to nerf their biggest source of revenue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds complicated. What if we just banned all ads?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

That would take away a major advantage rich people have over us, so you'd better believe the useful idiots among us will not support it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There was a time when ads for both pharmaceuticals and lawyers were both illegal. Considering how many of each I see every day, it makes me wonder how they filled their ad schedules in the olden days.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Laundry detergent and other household cleaners targeting stay-at-home wives.

It's why daytime dramas are called Soap Operas.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Prescription drug ads are a global oddity to begin with. Last I heard, only the U.S. and New Zealand allow them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How else will I know what drugs to tell me doctor I have to take for diseases I don’t have?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Viewers think those ads are aimed at them, but many of them are for such specific versions of a disease, that the viewership must be extremely tiny. They wouldn't spend that kind of money to reach such a miniscule audience.

The ads are really aimed at the doctors themselves. A doctor with a specific specialty may have several patients that the drug might help. That's whose attention they are trying to get.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If this is passed(lol), then it will put a lot of actors who specialize in pretending to garden out of work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Good!

Everyone involved in advertising can get real jobs instead of being paid to psychologically manipulate us with fake smiles!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Not to mention the people who come up with all that cheesy music and lyrics that try to rhyme with the nonsensical words the industry uses for drug names.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

There goes the Golf channel

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Drug ads were only legalized in the 1990s. It was much better to not have to constantly see them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

1980s. Brought to you by Reagan.

“Fast-forward to the 1980s: while Ronald Reagan was telling Americans to "Just Say No," the feds cozied up to the pharmaceutical industry, and relaxed their legal restrictions. Direct-to-consumer marketing (DTCM), what you probably know as "drug commercials," was first given the seal of approval in the US in 1985.”

https://www.thrillist.com/health/nation/why-are-prescription-drug-advertisements-legal-in-america

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

"Drug commercials as you know them really only began in 1997, when constraints were further loosened, and new meds began to feature in television commercials. For its part, the FDA notes that no federal law has ever outlawed drug ads, justifying its progressively lax regulation."

The next paragraph explains why I mention the 1990sbecause before then you would have to have printed on screen the side effects.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Finally, some good fucking legislation

If we get pissed off enough as a country we can make this happen

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But then how will they try to defend exorbitant drug prices when they no longer have tens of millions of dollars of advertising expenditures and are still developing drugs largely via publicly funded research?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, those bonuses and stock buybacks aren’t going to pay for themselves!!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s good to have independents!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, democrats hate him because he's not beholden to the ruling class.

Fuck democrats and republicans.