Ralph Zuranski: “Are there other natural solutions to many of the health problems people suffer from?”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “The reason I brought this up is to illustrate that there are a whole lot of things we can use in nature that solve problems which still aren’t being solved.”
Ralph Zuranski: “Wasn’t your clinic raided by the FDA in the early part of the 1990’s.”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “Let’s do a little politics. Sometimes that is fun! Well, in 1992 we were having an average day at the Tacoma Clinic. Just before we were about to unlock our doors for the day, there was a ‘big ole banging on the doors’ and somebody kicked in the front doors.
Ralph Zuranski: “Wasn’t that kind of frightening?”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “They came running in through the side doors and the back door. These fellows were holding guns and were yelling “Raid! Raid! Raid!” And, it wasn’t an insecticide commercial! It was like one of those cop’s episodes!”
Ralph Zuranski: “What did your staff do?”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “You know that would have been funny except those were real guns! I am a 2nd amendment supporter so I’m happy that most of them had them pointed towards the ceiling. But, they did point one at our receptionist and said, ‘Hands up!!!’ So she put her hands up and said, ‘If you want an appointment, you don’t have to come in with a gun.’”
Ralph Zuranski: “Did the agents threaten you and your employees?”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “They told her to shut up! Actually, if it hadn’t been for real and gotten everybody’s adrenaline going, it would have been funny. They had a search warrant and we read the warrant.”
Ralph Zuranski: “What were the federal agents looking for?”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “They were there to arrest our B vitamins. No, I’m not kidding. They were there to arrest our vitamin B-Complex and our Vitamin B-12, some vitamin C and herbal extracts. And, all of these by the way were injectibles. They wanted them because they had the misfortune of being made in Germany, even though we bought them here in the United States.”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “The only reason I’m bringing this up is at that time, one of our favorite federal agencies, the FDA was before the congress asking for more and more power to regulate vitamins and minerals and botanicals. I guess they were demonstrating how much power they didn’t have with their guns-loaded-raid.”
Ralph Zuranski: “How did the media respond?”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “Very fortunately, some of the people that come to our clinic arrived for their appointment and were turned away. They started calling up the local radio, television and newspapers. It actually turned into a fairly big deal.”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “We are told by some White House officials that they had to install a special fax line at the White House. Before they were done, they received 25,000 faxes and who knows how many phone calls about this raid.”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “There was a cute letter to the editor of the newspaper. The writer said, “Here, I was sitting a McDonalds eating a Big Mac, drinking my coffee, smoking a cigarette and watching a cocaine deal go down across the street. When I saw the news flash about the B vitamin raid, I’m sure happy the government was protecting me against those B vitamins!!! "
Ralph Zuranski: “What do you feel were the long term consequences?”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “That is the kind of attention I received. The congressional hearing that was being held about giving the FDA more power was halted. We think by sitting there and getting ourselves raided by the FDA, we may have contributed to the turn around in the United States. It still needs more turning around. Please help us on that folks.”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “We contributed to the turn around that led to the changing the law allowing for vitamins, minerals, botanicals and so forth to be used more openly and freely. The big improvement was now people can put things on the market that are natural without having to get all this permission, as long as they are safe and natural.”
Ralph Zuranski: “What also needs to be done?”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “We still have one more step. We still can’t tell you what to do with them!! What do I mean by that? Ever pick up a bottle of Vitamin E and look at the label? It says Vitamin E 400 units. What’s it for? We are not supposed to tell anybody what it’s for, but at least we can put it on the market now. We couldn’t provide near the range of natural substances before the change in the law that happened in 1994. This new law was partly a result of that B vitamin raid on our clinic in 1992.”
Ralph Zuranski: “What was the final outcome of the raid?”
Jonathan Wright M.D: “In case you were ever wondering what the outcome of that raid was, that agency went through two grand juries. No indictments were handed down. Who knows, maybe the grand jurors were taking their B vitamins and they didn’t mind. After 3 years and $350,000 in legal defense funds, that agency just dropped the charges without telling us. We read about it in the newspapers that the case was dropped. And, for those of you who contributed to our legal defense fund, thank you, thank you very much, we wouldn’t have made it, our clinic couldn’t have afforded it.”
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