I once visited a local store that's 100% dedicated to selling pesticides and herbicides, pest control, traps, you name it. Open to consumers, no license or ID required.
It really drove home the quiet facts: pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer and Johnson & Johnson are the same ones in charge of manufacturing modern pesticides/herbicides, and distributing them to farmers and home-improvement stores.
They're also the self-same companies who've been producing the drugs designed to execute criminals. It's interesting how they've recently sort of balked on furnishing those drugs in service of capital punishment, isn't it?
Is that particularly surprising or quiet? It seems to make sense to me that the people who are in the business of making chemicals that alter biological processes in targeted ways at given dosages are also making chemicals that alter biological processes in targeted ways at given dosages. Admittedly, I probably never thought about it specifically, but who else would be making them?
Afaik, a lot of chemical companies basically just make stuff and then test it. If it turns out that it's lethal then it can be "binned" for lethal uses. If it turns out to be helpful than it can be "binned" for medicinal uses.
I'm sure they have a goal when testing new compounds but if it turns out to be a better matchstick they're not going to throw it into the trash because it was supposed to turn lead into gold.
It really drove home the quiet facts: pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer and Johnson & Johnson are the same ones in charge of manufacturing modern pesticides/herbicides, and distributing them to farmers and home-improvement stores.
They're also the self-same companies who've been producing the drugs designed to execute criminals. It's interesting how they've recently sort of balked on furnishing those drugs in service of capital punishment, isn't it?