Comments on: Corporations make illegal drugs legal http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/10/16/corporations-make-illegal-drugs-legal/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:15:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Niklaus Pfirsig http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/10/16/corporations-make-illegal-drugs-legal/#comment-14712 Niklaus Pfirsig Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:50:52 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1688#comment-14712 Oddly enough, the entire process of substituting legal pharmaceutical drugs for similarly acting readily available natural drugs is a form of decommoditization. By replacing competitive free-market commodities, with corporate-controlled substitutes, we are moving from a society based on freedom of choice toward a permission based aristocracy ruled by corporate monarchs and paid for by the cunsumers. Oddly enough, the entire process of substituting legal pharmaceutical drugs for similarly acting readily available natural drugs is a form of decommoditization.

By replacing competitive free-market commodities, with corporate-controlled substitutes, we are moving from a society based on freedom of choice toward a permission based aristocracy ruled by corporate monarchs and paid for by the cunsumers.

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