"Researchers at the University of Calgary say they have discovered the unique genes that allow the opium poppy to make compounds used to produce such drugs as codeine and morphine. Isolating the genes means these painkillers could be made synthetically, in a lab, the researchers say in a report published Sunday in the journal Nature Chemical Biology. Opiates are in short supply and that means many in the developing world can't afford the most powerful painkillers. This research could soon make them cheaper."
Hmmm, let's see. Opiates are in short supply? As many have asked, why don't buy opium from the Afghanis to extract these compounds from. As a matter of fact, buy all the opium from them, so they have a legal purchaser and money doesn't go to terrorism. Probably because drug dealers pay more than drug companies would. And drug dealers and warlords would probably force them to sell to them.
And if the drug companies could make synthetic opiates, they will probably patent them and they will be just as expensive until the patent runs out, and we can get the genaric stuff. I'm interested to find out where all the opium comes from now; is it grown say in the US at highly protected fields in say the Arizona area. I'll have to look it up and get back to youse.
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