You're all right about this, but there is also another reason. Somehow people think that Marijuana isn't a medicine because you smoke it. You can't smoke medicine, apparently (and yes, this is used as an argument against medical marijuana - how said, isn't it!). All medicine has to be in the form of a pill, or injected. Apparently everyone thinks that Marijuana can't be used as medicine because of this, and because of all the anti-cannabis propaganda surrounding it. Thus, even though they do know it can be medicinal, they make a pill that contains pure synthetic THC. Of course, these same people will argue against the legalization by saying that cannabis has become more potent (more THC) since the '60s and '70s. Some how this makes it bad, even though it's not bad to take a pure synthetic THC pill as medicine.

So considering this, Marijuana is bad, and the natural THC found in Marijuana is bad. However, synthetic THC in pill-form isn't, because apparently all medicine needs to be in pill-form to be a medicine.

Remember, people, it's not its medicinal effects that count as medicine... it's how it's taken. That is our society. Sucks, doesn't it?

But yes, the pharmaceutical industry would rather keep the world riddled with crime than to help end the phony War on Drugs, which has many unnecessary casualties. Not only that, but it is a war that cannot be won, not matter how strict the laws get; as there will always be someone willing to risk their freedom for a 1000%+ profit on an item.

The pharmaceutical company knows that if cannabis were legalized for any purpose, whether it be recreational or medical or spiritual, or all of those, that people would use it as an alternative to many of their "medicines."

I don't think it's so much about people growing their own - we already do that. It's more about cannabis taking over other popular prescription drugs with legal access to it. And you can bet that if it was legalized, that many people would realize how beneficial cannabis really can be.