Re:Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of maj...
by encoderer on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:26PM
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At scale it probably costs pennies to make a Percocet. If the drug maker gets $7 for a prescription that costs them $0.50 to manufacture, and they do that 150 million times in America in a year, that’s a billion dollars in gross margin.
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Re:Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of maj...
by projektfu on Friday September 02, 2022 @02:25PM
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They're available from the distributor at around 10¢ each. So $3 goes to the manufacturer and distributor and $4 goes to the pharmacy.
Incidentally, the huge difference between street price and wholesale price is the reason why diversion is a problem. If the drugs were sold at $10/pill but with instant rebates to the recipients of $9.90 then they'd probably be kept very strictly controlled, even without the DEA involved...