[emmanuel2012]

this certainly is interesting.
chemical synthesis was remarkably cheap from its conception, roughly 1940's (manufacturing-for-profit-wise).

they simply tell scientists the properties they want a substance to have, and they just begin to experiment with the atoms just as if they were Lego blocks. The result is your drug.

The more things change, the more things stay the same. DDT was thought to be a miracluous pesticide as well as an anti-viral treatment on humans.
Turns out it gave millions of people cancer (Directly through "vaccinations" or indirectly through the crops), and destroyed uncountable amounts of plantlife.

who knows what our medications will do to us in 50 years..

synthetic drug corporations often make loads of money.
the rule of thumb is that the more profit they make,
the larger the externality on society.
(externality = costs inuccurred by external entities other than the corporation as a direct result of the sales).

what we do know is how cheap this stuff is to make,
my question is, what are the externalities?