Quote Originally Posted by mattisstoned
i think a company with money to spend like malboro would be able to fork out the money needed n i believe they could deliver a product that would be eaquel to our hydro
You're right that they COULD produce such a product. But it would greatly harm their profits from cigarettes, and that's a product that nobody can grow on their own at home. So the big tobacco companies have a monopoly on it.

Three groups will spend whatever is necessary to keep cannabis and cannabis products as a schedule 1 drug.....pharmaceutical companies, tobacco companies, and beer/liquor companies. All three have so much to lose that it's worth tens of millions of dollars to them to keep MJ from ever being legal, even if it's monitored the same way prescription medicines, liquor, beer, and tobacco are.

It's going to take a HUGE leap of faith by politicians to lower it from a schedule 1 drug to a much lower rating before we can expect any changes in the laws. That's why joining groups such as NORML is so important. You don't think alcohol was made legal after prohibition because people stayed in the closet and kept in the dark. It took money.....in the hands of the government, in the pockets of politicians, and especially in the pockets of huge corporate big-wigs before it was re-legalized. And that drug is infinitely more harmful than any cannabis product ever used. Money, money, money....