• @Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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    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

  • _AutumnMoon_
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    314 hours ago

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

    • @Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
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      71 day 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

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    “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. 😬

    • @kayky@thelemmy.club
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      71 day 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.

    • @kayky@thelemmy.club
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      41 day ago

      Good!

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

    • @IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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      62 days 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.

  • magnetosphere
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    332 days ago

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

  • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    222 days ago

    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.

    • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      182 days ago

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

      It’s why daytime dramas are called Soap Operas.

    • @gramie@lemmy.ca
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      I have barely watched non-streaming TV for probably a decade or more, but I believe that in Canada it is much more difficult to advertise pharmaceuticals or law services. I think they can do it, but there are a lot of restrictions.

      Certainly when I’m subjected exposed to American TV, the number of pharmaceutical commercials is staggering.

      • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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        11 day ago

        I don’t know about lawyers, but as far as I know, the only two countries that allow pharmaceuticals advertising are the United States and New Zealand.

      • @BMW_stick@lemmy.world
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        Disgusting isn’t it? I firmly believe that if Bernie had become president in 2016 and or 2020, Trump’s name would be nothing more than board game worthy. The Democratic party gave us trump.

  • subignition
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    842 days ago

    Finally, some good fucking legislation

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

    • @reddig33@lemmy.world
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      572 days ago

      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

      • “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.