anthonypetre

Lesson 1 of trains learned: They are always closer and faster than you think!

I can't imagine trying it someplace like Texas, where someone on your property "stealing" something is legal justification to shoot them without further warning.

Human testing is fairly expensive compared to other options (computer modeling, testing on rats, etc). Given that, you can assume pretty much every other means of testing a drug has been done before they begin human trials.

You'll note in this case they were looking specifically at blood pressure, meaning they did a small study first and found elevated blood pressure in some of the previous group, so this round they test a larger group and see if there's a link between the drug use and blood pressure.

It seems to be from a 2012 comic book (the Scrooge McDuck comic is still in print).

They're afraid people will start smuggling in illegal aliens one organ at a time.