Several US hospital chains are joining forces to make generic drugs which have become outrageously expensive, or scarce.

It is not clear in the article whether they will sell to the general public as well. If they don't, the problem will get even worse for everyone else.

I suspect that the problem is the result of the many mergers in the pharma industry. Idealized economics says we can count on competition to do certain jobs, but that doesn't work when companies can merge instead of competing.

The EFF rebukes the members of Congress that voted to continue and increase massive surveillance, and vows the fight is not over.

Research suggests that psilocybin is a good treatment for depression.

Prohibition of drugs continues corrupting thugs in the US.

Heating up the War on Drugs reduces the supply and causes the price to go up. This increases the temptation, which brings more thugs, airport employees, and whatever, into the business. That is a poor return for the price society pays, in the form casualties from the war.

There are some things that we have to fight, such as wildlife poaching and deforestation. That's because they threaten to do harm that goes beyond making some people addicted. We can't protect elephants or rhinoceroses from extinction by legalizing the hunting of them. But not for drugs.

Over 60 companies and interest groups buy the bully's favor by paying dearly to hold events at sites he owns. They include unsavory foreign governments.