[ExI] medical marijuana

[Colin D]

Rafal:

I think you overestimate the altruism of corporate bodies. If given the
opportunity for lifetime patents, I would venture that most companies
wouldn't give two damns about real effectiveness, but on perceived value.
Just the same, if they could get away with it, they wouldn't even care if
the drug killed the people who used it (except maybe for the profit loss).
As well, big business wouldn't run on and on with research when they can
just keep selling the same old same old at the same old ridiculously high
price. As I've referenced before, productivity and progress isn't mediated
strictly by money made on it, but rather by taking money out of the picture
(pay researchers enough that they're not thinking about the pay) and giving
researchers autonomy and the tools necessary to pursue said autonomy.

Yours etc.,
  Colin D

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Damien Sullivan
<phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu>wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
> >    A socially progressive solution would be of course to have unlimited
> >    duration of universally binding patent protection on all new drugs,
> >    without any price restrictions imposed by illegitimate third parties
> >    (governments). In this way inventors would have the incentive and the
>
> No governments, no patents.
>
> Takes the power of a government to tell me I can't copy a book I own, or
> imitate a machine or drug I saw in public.
>
> -xx- Damien X-)
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