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July 13, 1993 Dear Mr. Olsen: This replies to your May 13, 1993, letter asking several questions about drugs. It is true that a good many drugs useful in therapeutics can be extracted from herbs. Some drugs have an animal origin, e.g., many hormones. A synthetic drug is a drug that is made by chemically combining various starting materials to make the desired product. The product is then identical in all respects to the product isolated from a plant source. Such a product can be marketed under the same name. For example, cortisone is synthesized from a yam that grows in Mexico and it is identical to cortisone extracted from adrenal tissue. A synthetic drug would be in the same
schedule as its Please let me know if I can be of further assistance on drug matters. Sincerely yours, Harold Davis |