Then, when the big corporations with the deep pockets get in the game, it's good-bye to the small fry, just like with all other agricultural and pharmaceutical products. 

Great wisdom.My background was in pharmaceutical science, no REI.

.$1.38Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.$1.24Morgantown WVWIJohnson Controls Inc.$42.73Johnson Controls Inc.$42.82Milwaukee WIWYCloud Peak Energy Inc.$1.39Cloud Peak Energy Inc.$1.39Gillette WY

Note, 3 of the 4 largest Pharmaceutical Companies (1000s of employees) are less than an hours drive from Philadelphia. 

Long story short is he landed a large pharmaceutical client and he'll be flying his consultants to live out there most of the time.

A few comitted dedicated people, businesses, working with a lobbyist and a couple key influential congressmen, changed some laws that transformed the natural foods industry, against tremendous odds including an extremly well funded pharmaceutical industry.

You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O’Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them) …We’ll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.

Pharmaceutical companies want more people to take more medicines, doctors want more visits and procedures, insurance companies want to pay as little as possible for those products and services.

When it comes to abuse, anything can be abused including pharmaceutical drugs.

I have approximately $200k that I feel comfortable working with, and I'm hopeful that other more experienced members of this community can help guide me in the proper direction.I currently work as a broker of commercial processing equipment (Pharmaceutical, Food, Mining, Chemical, etc.) and am confident that the skills I've developed in this profession will help me moving forward.I like the idea of buying and holding property, though I'm trying to be as open minded as possible as I'm aware that there are many different avenues toward wealth creation in this industry.Thank you - any suggestions, advice, warnings, or words of encouragement would be appreciated!