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Bitch all you want, but the legalization process costs money. It has to be made back somehow.

I've been donating to MAPS monthly for years. Those FDA trials were not cheap to run.

What percentage of the massive expense in following that process would you say is regulatory capture?

Fortunately.

We can see in real time with kratom what happens when drugs are allowed to be sold recreationally without FDA approval, and it's not good at all.

MDMA was literally invented and initally marketed by Merck.

But for another purpose: it was intended to stop bleeding. It was manufactured in form of pencil.

Psychoactive properties were discovered later

> It was manufactured in form of pencil.

Can you expand on this? I'm not sure what it means.

Similar to a styptic pencil - you may have seen used in boxing corners.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihemorrhagic#Styptics

Ah, of course. I have a block of that stuff.

It was meant as first aid for treating scratches and similar not serious traumas. It makes blood curdle faster. So instead of applying plaster you just press pencil along scratch and bleeding stops

Yup, got it. I actually have that in a block form like a small bar of soap for shaving cuts.