Should drug research be refocused? - Poll Results

Natural Health, April, 2002

IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY'S BACKTALK in News & Notes, we asked if federal money should go toward turning plant remedies into drugs. You said:

DEADLY SIDE EFFECTS

"No! Look at the number of deaths caused by drugs. What a wonderful world it would be if drug companies weren't so greedy."

Susie Van Meter
Lakewood, Colo.

THE PATENT PROBLEM

"[Drug companies] do `research' to alter plant compounds just enough to patent them. A dire waste of money and resources? The answer is obvious."

Ivy Gullickson
Berkeley, Calif., via email

EARTH KNOWS BEST

"Humans would be better stewards of the earth if they would only stop trying to make everything better than it is naturally."

Name Withheld
via email