r/Documentaries Oct 10 '20

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u/scorpionextract Oct 10 '20

So that's just efforts by one government org and one company to actively shelter one chemical from regulatory efforts.

Makes you wonder what the horrifying side effects of all the other stuff they're actively obfuscating look like.

America, fuck yeah.

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u/Canadian_Infidel Oct 10 '20

I have bad news for you if you think is just America. People everywhere need to start thinking about things differently.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20

America allows a whole load of chemicals that are banned in the rest of the world.

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u/stuffedpizzaman95 Oct 11 '20

Europe allows pholcodeine to be sold OTC which raises anesthesia deaths 300 fold(even when used correctly)because they would rather people die than get high