Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
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only the rich could afford them
That is one pill that would be counterfeited immediately and sold on the black market. The payoff for taking them would be high, so everybody could afford them. (They would pay for themselves, unless they did not work very well.)
I suspect a large number of people would not take them because of it being an obvious government conspiracy to take away their freedoms...

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