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Digg | Medical Marijuana—Politics Trumps Science | Scientific American | Medical Marijuana's Catch-22 (drastically edited):
Medical marijuana is caught in a classic Catch-22 situation: It is banned because the federal government dismisses the evidence of therapeutic benefit as insufficient. But because marijuana is banned, scientists can’t easily gather more evidence to make the case. And new drugs based on marijuana are casualties of the same policies.
This is playing right into pharma's hands: the actual drug itself won't be allowed, but industry derivatives of it will, stifling any incentive to pay the truth any actual attention, only more of the “symptom/benefit” equation. Clinically-defined “nature-identical” effects brought to you by as many people making as much money off you as possible. The one source we know is good, whole, and harmless we’ll instead divvy up into a billion proprietary, competitive little pieces for the privelege of paying to find out how messing with what ain’t broke hasn’t helped.
Bill Maher has pointed out that pharma, an industrial titan, helps keep pot illegal because they know they could never compete with it.
NORML | 98 Percent Of All Domestically Eradicated Marijuana Is "Ditchweed," DEA Admits | Dugg (drastically edited):
Unlike cultivated marijuana, feral hemp contains virtually no detectable levels of THC, the psychoactive component in cannabis, and does not contribute to the black market marijuana trade.
industrial hemp is grown legally throughout most of the Western world as a commercial crop for its fiber content. Yet the US government is spending taxpayers’ money to target and eradicate this same agricultural commodity.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
