That’s nice. Instead of letting consumers do their own research and decide what’s best for them, the federal government has again taken it upon themselves to decide what we can and can’t put into our own bodies. Why? Well, a baseball player died! Nothing wakes up the sleeping sheeple like a dead ballplayer! :rolleyes:
So, by this man’s logic, we have well over half a million people a year “dying in vain” from alcohol and tobacco, some of whom are even gasp ex-ballplayers! Why is this ballplayer any better than them? If he had half a brain, he’d have read about and weighed the risks before taking the drug. Look Ernie, it’s sad what happened to your kid and all, but that doesn’t make it your mission to keep hundreds of millions of people from ever touching the stuff.
Too risky? How many people died from it? Oh, right. 155 people over a several-year period, most of whom had pre-existing medical problems and shouldn’t have been taking it in the first place. For a product that’s sold in about 75% of the convenience stores I frequent, and also was the active ingredient in the wildly successful (and wildly overpriced) Metabolife, that’s not bad. Of course, all those stores also sell cigarettes, which killed 15,000 times more people in the same few years, but who’s counting?
I don’t take ephedra often, so this ban won’t effect me much, but it really helpful when I need to stay up a few extra hours and don’t want to take large amounts of caffeine. It also works wonders on a stuffy nose. Myself and millions of other users have remained completely heart attack-free, but that doesn’t matter. The government wants to wrench it out of our hands, anyway.
Fuck, if the FDA wants to do something about herbal supplements, why don’t they go after the modern version of patent medicine hucksters? I’m talking about the crooks who market completely ineffective “herbal remedies” with wild claims of curing everything under the sun while simultaneously increasing your penis size. No, these guys get to scam in peace, while one of the few herbal medications that actually works as advertised gets pulled off the market. Fuck that.
Oh well. Better stock up, ephedra users. Today you’re just buying some “trucker speed” from the gas station, but in 60 days, you’ll be a criminal in possession of a dangerous drug. :rolleyes: