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Re:A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression by Aurornis on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:45PM (#47080762)
> 6 plants are allowed to make it. Everyone else thought the licensing fee was too high

What licensing fee? It's an old, generic medicine. Anyone who wanted to set up an Ibuprofen manufacturing plant could do so relatively easily.

The reason more plants aren't coming online is that Ibuprofen is a couple pennies per pill at retail prices. There isn't money in making more ibuprofen.

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Re:A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression by hermanzegerman on Thursday February 19, 2026 @06:02PM (#47080976)
If there wouldn't be money in it, they wouldn't have invested 200 Millions in a new plant in 2017
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Re:A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression by Aurornis on Thursday February 19, 2026 @06:12PM (#47081104)
Then there must have been a market opportunity.

I bet there won't be much opportunity left after that plant comes online.

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