Which plants?
The ones that make aspirin from their bark?
The yew plant that gives a chemotherapy drug?
The nightshade that gives us digoxin?
The poppy that gives us our opioids?
Plants are the source for a very high percentage of the drugs we have on the market today. "Plant medicines" have already saved humanity - and they've poisoned quite a few of us to death too. This idea that "chemicals" is bad and "plants" and "natural" are good is toddler-grade nonsense and we have got to stop falling for such irritatingly simple narratives. The world is much more complex than that.
You're right, we should just allow pharmaceuticals to keep doctors prescribing us valium to sleep, Adderall to stay awake, blood pressure medicine to keep down the side effects of mixing pills, and oxy to help with the Adderall addiction.
Which plants? The ones that make aspirin from their bark? The yew plant that gives a chemotherapy drug? The nightshade that gives us digoxin? The poppy that gives us our opioids?
Plants are the source for a very high percentage of the drugs we have on the market today. "Plant medicines" have already saved humanity - and they've poisoned quite a few of us to death too. This idea that "chemicals" is bad and "plants" and "natural" are good is toddler-grade nonsense and we have got to stop falling for such irritatingly simple narratives. The world is much more complex than that.
You're right, we should just allow pharmaceuticals to keep doctors prescribing us valium to sleep, Adderall to stay awake, blood pressure medicine to keep down the side effects of mixing pills, and oxy to help with the Adderall addiction.