NO CLINICAL TRIALS YET ... WHA?

This is a picture of a box which contains 20 tablets of a drug which was discovered 3,100 years ago.  It is a generic form of the drug Colcys which is derived from a crocus plant and is very effective in combating the gout.  I bought a six weeks' supply for $16.00 in a country which shall remain nameless when an equivalent supply here in the United States would have cost $200.00.  I know this because my son had a prescription for such a supply.  Holy mackerel! Great guns! glory be! What happened?  I and you too must have been spared of the news that this drug had become so unsafe that millions who have been taking it around the world have been dying like flies all of a sudden.  Someone had better spread the news to the Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, French, English, Italians, Germans, Polish and all the rest of the world.  The United States has decided that this drug with a successful 3,100 year history is unsafe. But, wait a minute, this same country which really cares for people, has assured ONE company that IT,and IT alone in the entire country may continue to manufacture the drug in its purest form.  All the rest must cease and desist until further notice.  Thank you, Uncle Sam.  You've saved millions of lives and left millions more unable to buy the one drug that can prevent them from missing uncounted millions of hours from work because they can't get out of bed due to infernally painful gout flare-ups.  We thank you, Uncle Sam for taking all the kickback money that this has, and will undoubtedly continue to flow into the coffers of your government personnel.  It is so comforting to know that you have found the wisdom to make a judgement on a 3,100 year old drug, a judgement that no other government on the face of the earth has yet to make.  We here in the United States are so largely blessed to have such a caring parent willing to pull us under his pinions and protect us from such potential harm as is suspected of this unstudied, clinically untested substance.  
I'm left with some questions:
If colcrys had not been found, would the Babylonians have been able to conquer Palestine?
How about if Alexander the Great had not been able to control his gout with colcrys?
Oh, the Romans too...Jerusalem might not have fallen except for colcrys.
Do you suppose that Ghengis Khan would have been so successful had he not known about colcrys?
How about Napoleon? Ben Franklin and a host of others?  Do you suppose that Alexander the Great died young because of an overdose of colcrys?
I have one final question.  Do you suppose that a small Tea Party type government like say, an Arab Emirate, or a Lebanese Dictatorship or a Jordanian Kingdom would take a bribe and monopolize the manufacture and sale of a 3,100 year old drug because it had not yet been clinically tested?   HHMmmmm?