Illegally manufacturing expensive cancer drugs under patent and selling them on the black market cheaper would be a very interesting reimagining of BB.
walter never gets high on his own supply, dies
Pride would force him to only pay for cancer drugs the “legal” way. He’d fly too close to the sun trying to make enough money to afford them full price without insurance and create his own downfall. Cue “Baby Blue” by Badfinger as Walt dies after running out of legit cancer drugs that are blue pills while he has a barrel of them that he made in the other room.
Breaking Good?
Edit: I mean, Walter is gonna sell it below what Big Pharma sells right? More competition = Lower Prices? hopefully
More like ‘Breaking Even Worse’. Whole US would go after him.
More like Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
He pretty much HAS to sell for lower to actually have a market - who buys from an illicit source if it’s not even cheaper than through the normal channels?
if he tried to sell through normal channels, he’d probably get slapped with patent infringements or similar legal bs.
Given the world of BB, he would exchange some key components of the drug with some household stuff, and end up with a cancer drug that is “like, 100% pure, bitch”.
You might buy from an illicit source at full price if the genuine product was outright denied.
What would lead to someone being outright denied to buy medication, even if they pay with their own money? I could see it for things opiates, but no one takes cancer drugs for fun.
You’re not from America, are you?
Patent infringement, yes. But there’s also a gazillion quality control rules and forms and FDA submissions to manufacture drugs licitly. We know Walter White can control the quality, but does he have the patience to file the paperwork?
You know, I’m almost 40, a big reader, and have seen and heard “illicit” my whole life.
I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen anyone use licit, and that’s fascinating.
On season 1, no, he run away from inspection all the time.
On season 3, no, he knows where the inspector lives, and the inspector runs away from him all the time.
On season 7, no, but he runs the FDA and makes them add bullshit requirements to impede big-pharma all the time.
Won’t anyone please think of the shareholders? Without the monopolies they pay lobbyists to maintain, nobody would ever invent anything. There’s literally no other way; I checked and none of them are profitable at all.
I love the idea behind this movement but there’s no validation or proof to know what you make is actually effective.
I’d love to see the guy behind this movement actually do studies on the efficacy of home made pharmaceuticals but then I have a feeling that big pharma would shut it down.
If the alternative is cost prohibitive and you have no insurance or some fascist wants to prevent certain people from certain types of care, I think the point is pretty moot. I’m assuming efficacy would be directly related to the skill and knowledge of your cook, just like meth.
I assume there’s a market of very desperate state-locked women that’d only grow with the second Trump presidency, if we center up on abortion medications they provide. If I were in this collective, I’d go far and beyond with veryfying drug makers on a personal level, maybe giving them something akin to a checkmark on their own site, because there is a threat of right-wing fuckos selling meth or rat poison while cosplaying as a legit makeshift anrchist lab under their guidance. Ough, what a sentence. Anyway, yeah, the circle of trust should be tight with that one and if I was a woman (or any patient) I could’ve used a couple of peers confirming they had a good batch from the X lab and it caused no harm to them. If we are talking serious drugs one little fucked up doze is enough to bury you, and it takes a very dedicated person to try it first.
Oi. It’s bad enough people burn their houses down trying to do their own electric … well, I guess this way they’re only harming themselves, right? Yeah no, this is totally going to be used in the family too, isn’t it?
Still better outcomes than being born a Christian Scientist
