Pharmaceutical companies should pay for raiding nature’s medicine cabinet
In 2019, the pharmaceutical industry profited from US$1·2 trillion of global spending on medicines.1 Most of this is simply a cut of the $125 trillion worth of services provided by nature every year.2 Almost two-thirds of all small molecules approved by the US Food and Drug Administration between 1981 and 2014 were either inspired by, derived from, or mimicked natural resources or consisted of…