The concept that the Bahamas can benefit from their plants is misguided. Pharmaceutical research has to take place, extracting chemical components of a plant that MAY prove beneficial. The chemical derivatives have to be patented BUT before that derivative can be patented a tremendous amount of research, development and testing has to be performed. The country neither has the research facilities, nor the educated, experienced manpower to conduct the testing, or the ability to navigate FDA approval for a drug. The oral history of bush medicine must be preserved. To restrict access to the world’s scientists, who by large receive little for their work is ludicrous. Bahamians with knowledge handed down from elders are passing and sea rise will wash away those resources. Talk and more Commission meetings accomplish nothing.