> <i>But Revlimid is also, I soon learned, extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each daily pill. (Although, I later discovered, a capsule costs just 25 cents to make.)</i><p>That daily pill is 25mg. You can buy 5g of Revlimid's active ingredient for $352.<p>> <a href="https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/aldrich/901558" rel="nofollow">https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/aldrich/901558</a><p>200 doses at less than $2/ea.<p>If you want to get adventurous, you can probably buy 1kg from China or India for $900. Find a university or commercial lab with HPLC and LC/MS and run your own QC for a few hundred bucks. Store the powder in a vacuum-sealed container in a refrigerator. You're set for life.<p>I've done this sort of thing before, and <i>a lot</i> of people are doing it for GLP agonist drugs. (To say nothing of sports doping, nootropics, etc.)<p>Sometimes you've gotta take matters into your own hands.