They could, but AFAIK they don't (not that I pay much attention to the drug market in Lower Elbonia). Roughly speaking, the looser a country's drug regulations

They could, but AFAIK they don't (not that I pay much attention to the drug market in Lower Elbonia). Roughly speaking, the looser a country's drug regulations, the smaller its market. There's not really that much time to be saved here anyway, not compared to the time frame we're talking about. Look at figure 2.1 here: http://books.google.com/books?id=zlzwOEtDu4IC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&source=bl&ots=NE1UZ-k6dT&sig=Q2GTPTS-TZ0ky9WiUFV2qQtfCw8&hl=en&ei=x0i5StKVM9ev8Qb548meDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q=&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=zlzwOEtDu4IC&pg=PA11&#3... If you skip the Phase III trials and the red tape, you save maybe 5 years. Probably not enough to do much for a codger like Kurzweil, any more than it did for a couple of other dead people who loudly proclaimed that they would live forever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson