Fwd: FDA takes action against dietary supplements

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Hi everyone...

 

I am forwarding this from Natural Healing... Comments?

 

Be Well, Misty

 

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On Monday March 31,2003 the FDA started to take action against some companies

they charge are trying to market some illegal drugs or drug substitutes as

dietary supplements. The companies are alleged to advertise on their internet

sites that the drugs have mood enhancing highs, ecstasy, ephedra etc.

 

 

I looked at most of the sites. Some are grossly abusive, selling drugs to get

high legally, likw www.getstoned-legally But include are some legitimate dietary

supplement manufacturers, such as www.herbshop.com which is supposed to sell

ecstasy, which it might, but it's website is full of good healthy supplements

that should not be lumped in this categry. Unfortunately, this is a deliberate

attempt to frighten normal consumers who are interested in exloring natural and

herbal therapies instead of prescription drugs. Also included is

www.natureshigh.com which does try to legitamately promote and inform about the

medical uses of marijuana and efforts and possible legislation to legalize

marijuana and report it's

medical benefits.

 

This is a GROSS violation of free speech rights--even strongly protected

political speech rights commingled with less well protected but explicitly

recognised and protected rights to commercial speech.

 

 

Although Ephedra can be overdosed and misused it is a very legitimate herbal

treatment in chinese medicine (ma huang). The dangerous side efects of FDA

approved prescription drugs as documeted on the Jornal of the american

Medical Association april 1998 showed FDA approved drugs prescribed AS

DIRECTED-not overdoses-not the wrong drug- resulted in 106,000 deaths in

hospitals alone.

 

FDA does nothing to protect consumers against this far greater threat, but

actually PROTECTS the reputation and market for these more dangerous drugs, by

abusing their regulatory power to go after the possible competeitors to the

dangerous drugs. The manufacturers of these dangerous drugs offer big lucrative

jobs to former FDA officials and some high ranking employees who set these

dangerous anti-consumer-patient policies.

 

Write, call and email your Congressman and Senators to oppose this

FDA abuse of its regulatory powers.See www.house.gov and www.senate.gov The

legitimate supplement manufacturers should not be caught up in this hysteria

against a few egregious maufacturers of health promoting products covered in

DSHEA.

 

Arnold

 

 

 

 

 

 

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