Marijuana Persuasive Speech

Hello I’m Liam Savery and I’m going to talk about drugs, not about how marijuana should be legalised or how other illicit drugs should be allowed in medication, but the access to fairly priced drugs used in medication. Recently in the news a man name Martin Shkreli has been pointed to a lot and has been given the nickname “America’s most hated man” and one would not be considered shitted by the boldness of the nickname. The reason Martin has been in the news is due to the fact that the company he built up recently acquired the rights to the Daraprim drug used to treat toxoplasmosis, which itself is rare but people with weakened immune systems, like AIDS patients rely heavily on it.

In september Martin announced the change in price for the Daraprim drug and had raised it a whopping %5000 compared to what it was just prior at 13:50 US dollars had jumped to 750 Us dollars. This started a media outrage and angered many users of the Daraprim drug as getting a month's supply of the drug had become insanely expensive. This shouldn’t have been able to occur in the first place and there should have been laws …show more content…
The bad thing about this is that this was the only way to have any repercussions on the company as any future purchases of Daraprim would be near non-existent, Should this have been the only way that stopped businesses from raising the prices to the extreme heights that Martin put Daraprim at, or should there be laws set in place to stop the stupidity of people and companies like Martin and his