Drugs and the FDA
Prescription Drug
Patents
We must make a moral determination of where honest profit ends and greed begins. The only certainties we can state at this time
is that the perception of the pharmaceutical industry’s profits are they are unconscionable
because they have such influence in writing the current laws and use have been shown to use unscrupulous
tactics and misdirection whenever possible. We believe that a task force should
investigate all aspects of pharmaceutical company operations; review, evaluate, and suggest
revisions of the current laws for equity toward all involved, elimination of
all self-policing, and to ensure adequate oversight; the industry must not be
allowed to continue to misrepresent or hide the results of studies. The several
states should insist upon this because the federal government is not meeting
the requirements which its contract with them requires, and the states’ Sovereignty
allows them to enforce those requirements.
FDA Oversight of
Prescription Drugs
By the states forming a compact on the food and drugs sold in their
state with other states the FDA could essentially be eliminated and
remain as only a state oversight coordinator allowing the state
governments the right of oversight of Pharmaceutical companies in their
state. It is in this way we can increase the diversity of oversight from
one to many which would allow for better compliance as it would be a
much harder system to corrupt.
The Federal Government could
always retain the option to purchase the Patent of drugs they feel
should become a generic drug. By paying a drug manufacturer an average
of 5 years worth of sales plus legitimate research and development costs
the Federal Government could then sell the patent rights to many
competing companies which would effectively reduce the cost of
manufacturing drugs while not costing the taxpayers extra and preserves
the capitalist system. If there is no profit in developing and making
new drugs then there will very quickly be no new drugs.
The “War” on Illegal
Drugs
The cost of this “War” debilitates our government and
unnecessarily criminalizes citizens.
In cases in which no commerce issues are involved, it violates states’ Sovereignty. The
States should be able to declare what drugs they want legalized and
which ones they want to make illegal whether they be for medical use or
for recreational use.
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
We are charged by our Creator with
stewardship of our dominion: the Earth, and the creatures within it; our laws
should ensure that the natural order is protected. It is unconstitutional to give anyone a patent which conveys
the right to produce a product which will encroach upon the natural order, eventually
totally replace a natural species, and deprive everyone of the ability to
reproduce the natural product, thus allowing the patent holder to create a
monopoly for himself; this enables the one to unfairly deprive everyone else of
their right. Purchase of any
product should be a choice of the purchaser, not by a necessity manufactured by
the product’s producer; any law to the contrary violates both the Law of the
God of Nature and the Constitution.
[Modified as language was too confrontational]
