You just gave your own counter argument. If they find a promising way to use psychedelics for instance, they are not going with straight LSD, they will find som

You just gave your own counter argument. If they find a promising way to use psychedelics for instance, they are not going with straight LSD, they will find some analogue that they show is 0.1% better and patent it. Just like that special ketamine. Or all these ADHD medicine that is just tweaked and patented amphetamine.