[phs3]

Drug companies are not in the business of manufacturing plant extracts. Their business model is developing novel compounds that treat a disease or symptom, having patents awarded and then selling the compound exclusively for what ever price the market will bear.

Their is nothing in canibus that Big Pharma can profit from.

But, keeping it prohibited does guarantee that patients will have to use their less effective and much more dangerous alternatives, that they do, in fact, profit handsomely from.

Interesting fact: As a medical researcher, if one wanted to gain federal approval from the NIDA to study the effects of canibus, my thesis would have to state that I'm attempting to prove a detrimental effect. If they suspect that your are studying therapeutic effects, your petition will be denied.

[fireman15]

Drug companies are not in the business of manufacturing plant extracts.

Drug companies have and are still studying therapeutic uses for marijuana and various other drugs that are based on plant extracts.

[schurmann]

“...Their business model is developing novel compounds that treat a disease or symptom, having patents awarded and then selling the compound exclusively for what ever price the market will bear....”

Looks like free enterprise - a concept central to the American character.

Or it used to be; 130 years of Progressivism has altered the picture a bit.

All Progressives believe “Need creates right” - an assertion at the core of communism, a philosophy forever at odds with American society and irreducibly hostile to the United States. And they have labored for generations, to get the public to believe everyone has a right to whatever they need. Their efforts have made a hash out of medical care, nationwide.

If we are to conserve and reassert principles so central to the nation, we must turn our backs on author Steve Sherman’s family tragedies, and the many posters to this thread who so self-righteously defend unregulated marijuana use. They need to get over their hubris - and jettison their compassion.

Injustice is preferable to ruin.