I just stumbled on this article below and decided to share. I'll post the health benefits of cannabis soon.

"This is too big of a question to answer
in just one single article, but looking at
cannabis through the lens of its medical
properties, there seem to be few, if any,
reasons to keep marijuana off the
market. It doesn't kill, and while it
may not be as effective as other
treatments, it doesn't seem to get in the
way much.

When Mikuriya was asked if there was
a product out there today - anything -
that has as many benefits as medical
marijuana, he said simply: "No."

Medical marijuana may be beneficial
for everyone's health, but it's not very
healthy for the pockets of the
pharmaceutical companies. And
unfortunately for citizens in need of
a cheap, all-natural alternative
medicine, the pharmaceutical industry
is the biggest industry in America with
powerful connections in high places.
And they don't like marijuana. At all.

"It's unlimited," Hornby said of
marijuana. "Grow more, get more
medicine. Pharmaceutical companies
don't want you growing your own
medicine."

The idea of legalizing a cheap, all-
natural medicine that grows out of the
dirt is a threat to the pharmaceutical
industry's bottom line.

Dr. James Hudson, professor emeritus
at University of British Columbia's
Department of Pathology and Lab
Medicine, said pharmaceutical
companies have a great incentive to
recreate the organic compounds in
marijuana and sell a drug from it,
rather than just release the all-natural
version to the public.

"The prime motivation behind any drug
company is to make money, and as
much money as possible. In the case of
a synthetic compound, if it's only an
ingredient from the cannabis, they can
formulate that as a drug and make a lot
more money off of it."

Since no company can patent a plant,
pharmaceutical industries are incentivized to keep cannabis and industrial hemp illegal as they try to recreate the same drug with the same effects. Obviously, there is a great deal of "double talk" in this argument -
How can the government prohibit marijuana but allow an identical drug with identical effects? - but ultimately, it comes down to money.

"There's no money to be made off
natural plants," said Dana Larsen,
founding editor of Cannabis Culture
magazine. "If you use a natural
medicine that you can grow in your
own home that costs pennies to use,
you're going to do that."

Yet, the facts remain: Prescription
drugs, while legal, are experimental,
dangerous and often toxic. Prescription
drugs continue to kill tens of thousands,
if not hundreds of thousands, of
Americans each year; meanwhile,
marijuana has never been the direct
contributor to a single death. Maybe we
should focus less on making natural
plants extinct and focus more on
controlling the drugs that we're
actually responsible for.

www.ibtimes.com

Money making politics...........

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