The drug companies lobbied the government (before 1920) into making laws that prevented the Indians from using their own medicines (over 500) and then made billions off that same medicine, while the Indians were thrown in jail for illegal use of their own medicine.

The living conditions on many reservations here in Canada are deplorable, worse than some third world countries. As leaders of our country, the government should be suing the drug companies to pay for the damage done to our native population instead of relying on the taxpayers to do it.

Now the number one killer of people in North America is prescription drugs and our governments are still being brainwashed and lobbied into outlawing natural medicines; they were the drug companies’ biggest money maker before using chemicals.

What is wrong with this picture?

Randy Bayley

Salmon Arm Observer