| As I predicted over a year ago when ephedra | | | | has been taken away, and ephedra is only the start. |
| products were making a come-back, I said to people | | | | Now you might not get arrested buying ephedra |
| who were buying my book, The Black Market Report | | | | products, if you can find them, but I sure wouldn't want |
| on Ephedrine, not to get to excited about ephedra | | | | to buy ephedra products on the black market made in |
| product being around much longer. | | | | back rooms. If the FDA thought ephedra products |
| You see, if you don't know the story about ephedra | | | | were questionable before, now there is really |
| diet pills then here is the short version of the story. | | | | something to worry about. |
| Ephedra weight loss pills were legal and popular for | | | | The real problem was money. Ephedra was an |
| over 10 years. The ephedra products were really | | | | effective alternative that was actually pretty darn |
| helping a lot of people lose weight. Some people had | | | | cheap. |
| trouble with them. The FDA said, we have to save the | | | | That was what the pharmaceutical companies didn't |
| few people who have trouble taking ephedra. | | | | like. Cheap and effective. And that money wasn't |
| Despite the fact that millions of people actually lose | | | | going into their pockets. |
| weight taking ephedra we, the FDA, must stop this | | | | The long term game plan, even though it may take 20 |
| nonsense. A few people are getting hurt every year. | | | | or 50 years is to get herbs taken off the market and |
| We need to protect the public and make it illegal. | | | | removed as a choice from the consumer. If you have |
| So ephedra was made illegal. Then, temporarily, it was | | | | nothing to turn to except prescription drugs, well then |
| legal again for a little over a year. Now it is illegal again | | | | they have finally won. Even if it did take a few |
| and just to make sure it stays illegal some of the | | | | decades. |
| people up in Congress got the wording of a law | | | | Ephedra worked, some people didn't like it. Some |
| changed just to make sure there was never any | | | | people had problems with it. It is no different from any |
| trouble again. | | | | other drug or herb on this earth. |
| That way, ephedra products would always stay illegal. | | | | If a doctor prescribes you a drug and you have |
| Not only that but anytime the FDA wanted to it could | | | | problems with it, he will lower the dose or find another |
| make any other herb illegal. Just because. | | | | drug to give you. It almost never gets taken off the |
| Okay, is my bitterness showing? I think people have | | | | market because of a few bad side effects. |
| the right to make an informed choice, but that choice | | | | It never made logical sense and never will. |