Big pharma Obama and cannabis

[porone]

Check these out

Big Pharma set to take over medical marijuana market | The Raw Story (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/20/big-pharma-set-to-take-over-medical-marijuana-market/)


Activist Post: The Audacity of No Dope (http://www.activistpost.com/2011/04/audacity-of-no-dope.html#more)


I for one have had with our government.We should have hunting season for Republicrats:mad:

[HighPopalorum]

If pharmaceutical companies are working on marijuana-based drugs or their synthetic equivalent, they should be applauded for researching the medical benefits of pot and for developing treatments legally available to patients whose home states do not allow smokable medical marijuana. Great, grand wonderful. Why should anyone fear new medicine for the chronically ill? NORML is way off base for protesting the rescheduling of marijuana-derived pharmaceuticals from Schedule I to Schedule III.

[porone]

Hipop
Did you read the links?e
Here is a quote from the first

"The DEA's intent is to expand the federal government's schedule III listing to include pharmaceutical products containing naturally derived formations of THC while simultaneously maintain existing criminal prohibitions on the plant itself,"

This is why NORMAL is protesting.Big pharma's pot schedule III Your homegrown Schedule I.

[HighPopalorum]

It does not follow that because homegrown is Schedule I marijuana-based pharmaceuticals should be as well. We should welcome any relaxation of the marijuana laws, however incremental. Allowing companies to research and bring these new drugs to market will only strengthen the case for rescheduling marijuana: the more people being treated by pot, the more ridiculous the government's contention that it has no medicinal value will seem. NORML sometimes takes delight in pointing out government hypocrisy, even if they shoot themselves in the foot. This is one of those instances.

[Colodonmed]

seems possible some of those "whacked out conspiracy theories " may not be so damn whacky after all, it is ironic that the patent for marinol expired the same day they relaxed the shedule of whole plant cannabis for big pharma research....just saying.

[senorx12562]

So you're saying that the pharmaceutical industry has more clout with our government than cannabis growers and users? Shocker.

[Colodonmed]

HighPop, if NORML succeeds in recreational legalization, pointing this contradiction out will be entertaining, yet we shouldn't count chickens before they hatch. Big Pharma with the ear of enough politicians can pull a lot of weight against us.


and rest assured they will be pulling their weight!