Sadly yes we see many companies doing that wanting to make a profit selling their own stuff. Big Pharma is often guilty of wanting to make a pill for something that has a perfectly good natural remedy. Often governments even end up outlawing natural remedies in favour of a prescription drug. In my country there was a long and bitter fight to get legal access again to cannabis to help treat pain and suffering for cancer patients (at least people have a choice now). 

 I know cannabis and hydrocarbons do more good for humans than harm, and they work. If the new things were actually better, prohibition wouldn't be in any way necessary.

Cars, gunpowder, the printing press.. weren't prolific because we successfully banned horses, arrows, and going to church.  The reasons they succeeded are more inherent to the power shift those technologies represent 😉