Last fall, before being named the senior U.S. health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Trump administration would liberate Americans from the FDA’s “aggressive suppression” of vitamins, dietary supplements,
Kennedy’s drug farm idea appears to be inspired by a decades-old program in Italy, where people who use drugs are made to work on a large farm. There have been accusations of abusive practices like shackling, beating, public shaming, and confinement in cages at these very farms. This is sadly not an anomaly.