There is, in fact, precedent here - the homebrew movement. I grew up in a house where beer kits were used to brew really, really cheap bitter at a fraction of the cost in shops. I’ve known neighbours and relatives who’ve made wine from wild berries and gooseberries. I’ve even got a book with recipes for making wine…

Laufer counters this by offering that he has made his own aspirin, ingested it and is perfectly fine.

Yup. I have a double major undergrad degree in biochemistry/biology that was focused on pharmaceuticals and I’ve gone on to grad school (although not in that field). One of my former profs is an author on that legit Cell paper about the freeze-dried pellets for synthetic chemistry.

All drugs have been created by someone who had no idea what the outcome was, originally. And then they tested it on animals, perhaps. Then onto people, unsure as to what exactly was going to happen. And we still get medication that has a side effect label longer, and sometimes more fatal, than whatever it is supposed…

I’ve known quite a few women who have made herbal infusions to prevent pregnancy, in the late 90s early 2000s myself included and so I know this is needed where birth control isn’t available but when this guy said he wants to make it so his mom could use it WTF? He seems like an ass.

Park near the exit. I am a lazy mom with small children who also likes to build things. Do the heavier walk as the shorter one, duh.

Good luck. It would be marvelous if this could happen, but I’m sure our government would rather lock away sick Americans who try and make their own medicine, rather than see corporate Pharma stocks and profits fall. Hell, we can’t even import drugs that cost 1/100 of what we pay, because of the nonsense that other…

I’m sorry, do it yourself is fine, but there’s a reason why specialists exist. You gotta figure for every person who can do DIY successfully, there’s 5 that managed to set the building on fire.

TLDR: DIY-pharma is as stupid and dangerous as making Meth in your kitchen. If you want lower drug prices and availability, you need to tell and hold your representatives accountable.

haha. this is hilarious. wouldn’t even be an issue if you fucktards had proper health care, like the rest of the industrialized world. us is closer to a 3rd world country now.

Companies expect a high return on invested capital so getting a big chunk of money now beats getting small chunks of money every year for a few decades. Governments can borrow money at a much lower interest rate so for them it’s the other way round, they can afford to borrow money and then pay a smaller interest every…

I get nervous enough as it is making homemade kimchi. I couldn’t imagine whipping up a batch of something important/potent.

But cash upfront might not be as enticing, as cash over a long time, and over and over again. : )

Assuming this ever becomes good and simple enough to be useful for everyone there’s going to be problem with financing new drugs, which is very expensive. Why go to all the trouble when once you succeed people will just read your patent application and use it to make their own drugs?

As a resource for trained medical professionals in remote or impoverished areas where traditional pharmaceuticals are inaccessible, the idea of such a DIY lab could be a game-changer. In the hands of your average American who can barely cook passable scrambled eggs or fix a running toilet, I can only imagine what a…

Such misguided nonsense. From a world health perspective, the problem is the distribution of drugs, not their manufacture. While the expensive drugs get the headlines and horror stories, the vast majority of important drugs are off-patent and are manufactured dirt cheap. The problem is getting these dirt cheap drugs…

In Laufer’s mind, though, the bigger threat is capitalism, and the lack of accessibility to healthcare that it can create.

The real question is are people going bother buying and setting up lab equipment and risk poisoning themselves or their family members to get cheaper drugs? In 95% of cases, the answer is going to be no. But what they will do it find someone in their neighborhood or friend network who knows how to make this, and try…

Garage chemistry was what it was called in the 90's. It’s not a new idea, and it’s fairly stupid. Why? Because having some unpermitted person mixing up chemicals in their garage at home, and then dumping the failed results down the drain is the reason. It costs money to dispose of chemical and pharmaceutical waste…

I don’t know...this seems pretty dangerous for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is chirality. The high cost of some drugs is associated with manufacturing processes that produce enantiopure drugs, which is exceedingly difficult and unlikely to be replicated at home. In most cases, these simply have…