The FDA recently announced that it plans to prohibit sales of products containing ephedra, a stimulant sold primarily for weight loss. What do you think?

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  If they ban ephedra, they're just going to drive fat people out into the streets for their weight-loss fix.

  Donald Clark
  Systems Analyst

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  This is bullshit. I contacted the FDA after my cousin swallowed three wooden blocks and died, and you still see those on the market.

  Alan King
  Unemployed

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  Well, for now, I can get along fine with bitter orange, royal jelly, and the lichen derivative usnic acid.

  Steve Hernandez
  Cook

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  How terrible! Americans have no other options for weight-loss products.

  Martha Nelson
  Product Tester

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  You can ban the drug ephedra, but you'll never be able to ban what ephedra stands for.

  Angela Hall
  Teacher

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  Why is it always the drugs that suffer when people get hurt?

  Gregory Green
  Professor