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Pharmaceutical companies turn to cash-strapped Appalachian communities to harvest plant medicine.
Date: 1900s
Pharmaceutical industry
Medical system (Western medicine)
Traditional/folk/cultural medicine
Colonization
Poverty
Minimal cash is paid to impoverished communities for plant harvesting. The plants are then used to produce high-cost pharmaceuticals.
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