
What Next TBD: Big Pharma’s Bet on Psychedelics
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Is Patent Trolling a Good Idea?
John simley: Critics accuse hem of almost what we call patent trolling, right? In the discovery center there's been at least a hundred and 50 new drugs found. When a patent gets published, that is like a recipe card to an underground chemist,. Anyone who makes drugs in bunkers or barns or basement can look at that recipe and say, hey, i've created whatever of the drug i made up before. And that can now become an underground drug, or a street drug, if you want to call it that. He says corporate psychodelic world is going to have to stamp out the underground market.
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