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human
Allow their competition to produce generic versions - or even the precise patented drug - for the duration of the suspension. Prices would go down, not up. 

Thousands would lose their job? Better stop cracking down on cocaine and heroine too, then. Drug farmers and the cartel soldiers have jobs, too. Do we refuse to shut down something like a mafia because they’d lose their jobs? 

If you work for a corrupt company that survives on the back of criminally gained illicit profits from misinformed and desperate people.. maybe you deserve to lose your job?
gpt
&gt;If you work for a corrupt company that survives on the back of criminally gained illicit profits from misinformed and desperate people.. maybe you deserve to lose your job?

This sounds great, but it doesn't work in practice. Plenty of the people who would lose jobs probably have no idea what their labor is supporting. Anyone processing raw materials isn't going to keep track of where all of those go. Same with the people transporting them. The decision makers are far more responsible than the janitor, but they'll have a golden parachute while that janitor can't pay his mortgage.