Are drug companies making a marijuana super pill?

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End Prohibition Now

Marijuana prohibition is a tool for profit and control. It is not and never has been intended for the good of society itself. It's good for corporations and governments. Everyone else suffers for it.

Pharmaceutical companies can suck it. Cannabis is a plant. All you need is nature, not GloboChem. To hell with Pit-Pat!

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Our federal agency charged with ensuring our safety against bad drugs has been co-opted by the very ones that they should be protecting us from. In it's natural state herb doesn't harm or have any of the nasty side affects of most man made chemicals. As in most cases it is silly to try to improve on natures gifts.

if they can figure out a way to allow big pharma to make and profit from it and still make the natural plant illegal,,,, then you will see some form of marijuana available to all who need it...

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We, as a people, need to stand up for our rights. In this case it's our right to have what mother nature intended.

Lets take back the sacred plant!

Thanks for the post. More facts to share with others. Facts matter!

Why do they not legalize the plant? Because it leads to stability, sustainability, and peace. All those characteristics add up to no profit for greedy corporations.

It will never be decriminalized.It's a plant that you can grow easily, why bow down to corporate tyranny when you self medicate yourself from your own creation? Grow your own and administer it with a vaporizer...free the weed.

eClear thinking ......consider that Poppy plants produce opium...opiun produces herion...herion produces oxycodone...oxycodone refines to Oxycotin...
Best selling pain pill legally available......and soooooo addictive and misused.
Both plants Marijuana and poppy's are just that...plants...except marijuana isn't soo
horrific... . current tv made a film called "The Oxycodone Express"...Whata revealing film.

As long as this plant remains illegal the drug companies stand to make billions if they can perfect these pills. America deserves to know who's being paid off
well said M.D.
Oh yeah.....The A.M.A. reversed itself earlier this year and said marijuane does have medicinal value.

I can still grow My own cheaper than They can sell the pill.

Marijuana is a political taboo because they declared a war on drugs with marijuana as one of its chief targets , so now amongst older voters especially the negative image has been implanted , those older voters are the most consistent in voting.

Also every politician whoever voted for more tougher sentences or action against marijuana to cater to there base would have to not only have to disappoint there base but admit that they participated in the wasting of valuable resources.

You gotta remember most people dont even know what weed smells like , they have a general idea about drugs that they apply to all of them , my father who used to call it "the dope" told me stories about how he used to read in the paper in england that people used to smoke dope and think they could fly and jump off buildings.

A lotta people have the same view of marijuana that they have of heroin this "all drugs are bad" kinda thinking , they never bothered researching because it was a subject that never interested them.

The last thirty years we've seen police kick in doors and get into shootouts over marijuana so even if they dont have a bad impression of the drug itself all the imagery surrounding it in the media has left a negative impression.

Marijuana's ability to be used as food, fuel, clothing, and medicine makes it the perfect plant to patent. It's literally worth billions (trillions?). Because every gene and purpose is destined for international corporate control, like Marinol, I sadly see it remaining widely illegal for the peasants to cultivate it.

god i hope not. can't wait to hear the side effects

Nice article, just one question. Is it true that Marinol could be bought and sold legally, even while marijuana itself is still illegal and even in states that don't sanction medical marijuana?

Excellent! This is total hypocrisy and corruption to allow big pharma to patent a pill based on a plant they not only say has no medicinal value, but they actually target as a primary object in the War on Drugs... I don't understand how this is possible to create a second schedule to allow "plant derivatives" to be manufactured for medicinal use under a lower schedule than the very same compound specified under schedule one.

They need to just remove it and legalize it, fuck the pharma co's!!

In addition to Marinol which has already been approved, the FDA has started clinical trials of Sativex, an oral spray which has already been approved for use in Europe. Sativex is nothing more than a cannabis tincture in a spray bottle and they are expected to create a special scheduling for it to allow it's production and use while leaving THC as a schedule one in it's natural form... what a load of BS!!!

Marinol and Sativex are fundamentally different in that Marinol is actually a synthetic form of THC, and Sativex is actually the natural extract from the plant. Marinol has already been proven far less effective than natural cannabis because it is a synthetic form of only one of the many beneficial compounds found in the plant. Sativex offers a natural and controllable product to be prescribed, but this flies in the face of everything our government has been trying to tell us in order to defend Cannabis/THC schedule one status.

They are making a special exception for the pharmaceutical companies to create a high priced product that otherwise would be cheap and affordable, not to mention completely safe to use even in its natural raw form.