In 14 days the California Board of Pharmacy (BOP) could vote to restrict a long list of legal and widely used natural compounds. This discussion and potential vote will take place at their 9/12 public board meeting. Learn How You Can Help 🧵 1/
1. Sign and share the petition today! (or link in bio)
2. Alert your representatives: Visit to find them. Not in California? No problem. You can still contact Gov. Newsom to defend your California neighbors! 2/change.org/stopthebop findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov
3. Call or email The BOP your objections: 916-518-3100 or debbie.damoth@dca.ca.gov 4. Attend the 9/12 Board Meeting via Webex or in person and exercise your 1st amendment right by giving a public comment! Access links and instructions will be available at
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I signed the petition.
I wrote to the BOP.
Here’s my email to debbie.damoth@dca.ca.gov. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COPY IT. This is about volume, not originality. SUBJECT LINE: California resident and taxpayer writing with regard to a statewide ban on methylcobalamin and glutathione infusions
Dear Ms. Damoth,
I object to this attempt to ban the above substances. In addition to a rather terrifying 'slippery-slope' argument, I'm going to include quotations from a petition at change.org.Â
I'd also like to ask whether the pharmaceutical industry and/or their lobbyists are involved in this punitive action. Please assure me -- with evidence -- that this is not the case. On September 12* The California State Board of Pharmacy (aka "The BOP") is expected to meet and vote to block access to an entire class of treatments that are depended on by patients all around the world. This unprecedented move would make California the ONLY state to take such an action, despite The BOP offering the public no scientific or legal justification for doing so.
These treatments, which include methylcobalamin and glutathione infusions, are labeled by the FDA as Category 1 substances (not to be confused with Schedule I controlled substances). They are legally prescribed and dispensed throughout the United States as primary and supplemental treaments for a variety of serious conditions including cancer, kidney disease, liver disease, heavy metal toxicity, mycotoxicity, anemia, cystic fibrosis, Parkinson’s, autism, Lyme Disease, long COVID, ME/CFS, and many others.
Pharmaceutical companies do not manufacture Category 1 substances. Instead, these critical treatments are only available through highly specialized sterile compounding pharmacies.
Since 2020, The BOP has been targeting these specialiized pharmacies with increasingly harsh regulations and using taxpayer money to file lawsuits against eight of them, falsely claiming that they were dispensing Category 1 substances improperly. Despite losing every case in court and even being admonished by one of the judges, The Board is now attempting to codify their extreme stance into policy, putting countless lives at risk.
More about how your actions will affect patients, firefighters among them, can be found here.
From my reading, this is wholly immoral and has a whiff of totalitarianism. Rhetorically, why must this state in particular meddle in everything -- especially of late, medical freedom?Â
Sincerely,
Emily Barsh Los Angeles
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