The Merck Disgrace – Profit Before People

When it comes to Big Pharma scandals, few names raise eyebrows quite like Merck Pharmaceuticals. Once paraded as a pillar of scientific innovation, Merck today stands accused of the same sin that corrodes so many corporate giants: profit over principle.

At the surface, many might praise Merck for mass producing the “wonder drug” Metformin – a cheap, readily available treatment for type-2 diabetes. But scratch a little deeper and you’ll find decades of stonewalling innovation. Better, safer, more advanced alternatives have been ready to go for years – yet Merck clung tightly to Metformin, milking it for profit while patients were denied access to progress.

This alone would be disgraceful. But worse is the company’s unethical interest in infiltrating the cannabis industry. What began as a people-led push for medical freedom is now just another marketplace for Big Pharma to seize and squeeze. Sources tell TDB that Merck has been caught circling the cannabis sector, using hacking, lobbying, and covert influence to muscle in – not for patient benefit, but for shareholder dividends.

The rot runs through the top. Jeff Smaha, Merck’s Vice President responsible for global sales and a man known to our editor, made it clear from the outset that the priority was never people’s health – only profit margins. The clearest sign? The DMACC principle – set up not as a genuine educational or medical structure, but effectively as a cannabis dealer dressed in institutional clothing.

This is the Big Pharma playbook:

Stifle innovation to protect cash cows like Metformin.

Hijack emerging industries like cannabis once grassroots progress threatens to outshine them.

Co-opt education and health structures as fronts to normalize profit-driven exploitation.

It’s a cycle that leaves communities robbed of health, trust, and genuine care – while executives cash in.

Merck may still try to present itself as a “savior” in the medical marketplace. But to anyone who has followed their moves closely, the truth is plain: they are not healing the world, they are hacking it.

And in this case, the disgrace cannot be ignored.