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
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.
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?
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.
At first but then he goes bad when big pharma comes after him and he wins and corners the market
No at first he flies under the radar but his drugs end up being more effective than the market ones which causes doctors to start using them in clincs. first for family and friends but eventually more generally. The fbi, cia, nsa, dea, fda, wwf, and such get involved and he is caught and brought up on terrorism changes since he is to popular with the citizenry to face legitimate charges.
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
You can make even more money denying cancer drugs.
I’ve been saying for years that
A) It’d be cool if
And
B) Someone eventually will
Make/smuggle black market medicine (not drugs medicine, ykwim) and sell it both through the good ol sneakernet or even onion sites like WHM or SR.
“A police operation today invaded an illegal drugs lag, confiscating 100kg of illegal cough syrup and enough methanphetamine reagents for producing other 300kg”
