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How does a product like this make it to the market? Is this article overstating the danger, or did everyone involved (scientists, product folks, marketing folks, executives) just ignore it?

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Drugs are good business, especially if the ones you're peddling are legal (at least gray area) and you're detached from the street dealing.

Something being highly addictive is also a nice plus. For them. Not the poor victims who get hooked and their lives upended.

It makes it to market because the US Congress is effectively nonexistent. They can't pass a bill, even a simple budget bill. The government is literally shut down.

States can also act, and in many ways it's wiser to start there first for many things

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