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Those poor, poor drug companies, it is not their fault they acted like utter cunts. After all, they were allowed to act like utter cunts, so they just had to. So lets solve this by removing all regulation that stops them from acting like utter cunts in other interesting ways, that couldn't possibly backfire.

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Would you please not comment in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how badly others have behaved? Making this place even worse doesn't help.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20274137 and marked it off-topic.

Sorry, I'll tone it down. This topic is one I have to be very careful not to lose my temper over and I really didn't manage that here.

Your tone seems very uncalled for.

All I am arguing is that if you prosecute people from selling drugs, or make more regulations, fewer people will sell drugs - at a higher price.

It shouldn't matter people are cunts, if they have competition they will have to provide better satisfaction.

As of now, american people are prohibited from importing drugs, and that's exactly what utter cunts lobby and fight for.

>... or make more regulations, fewer people will sell drugs - at a higher price.

Which just doesnt happen in countries with stricter regulated medical markets. Quite the opposite, it happens in the US, thats what this article is about. Its a nice theory but not something that can be observed in reality.

>"All I am arguing is that if you prosecute people from selling drugs, or make more regulations, fewer people will sell drugs - at a higher price."

Looking at the other drug market, not only does this not stand up, but also the quality is a crapshoot.

The other drug market has fewer people selling than otherwise, at a higher price (for the quality) than otherwise.

I'm not sure how you are able to the opposite conclusion.

Being a street corner crack dealer in many US cities has so much competition, that it pays below minimum wage.

The trouble is that many of those regulations exist for very good reasons.

Dropping enough of those regulations to encourage competition is a baby with the bathwater kind of situation.

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