If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that I don’t do drugs and never have. Not for any religious or moral objections; I just wasn’t interested, couldn’t be bothered and, as a teen, I was unusually immune to peer pressure. However, everyone around me did use drugs, particularly marijuana so i am quite familiar with what it does and what it doesn’t do. I know, for a fact, that it’s less dangerous and less addictive than both cigarettes and alcohol, both of which are legal to make and grow yourself.
Yet, the Obama administration is going hogwild to shut down every domestic source of marijuana even though it’s legal to sell with a prescription and the country is pretty much on board with legalizing it. But why?
Ah. I see.
A British company, GW Pharma, is in advanced clinical trials for the world’s first pharmaceutical developed from raw marijuana instead of synthetic equivalents_ a mouth spray it hopes to market in the U.S. as a treatment for cancer pain. And it hopes to see FDA approval by the end of 2013.
Sativex contains marijuana’s two best known components – delta 9-THC and cannabidiol – and already has been approved in Canada, New Zealand and eight European countries for a different usage, relieving muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis.
Interesting that that dispensaries all over the country are being shut down right about the time that corporations will be able to sell marijuana in pill form. I wonder how the chemicals in marijuana will legalized while still leaving the plant itself illegal to grow or sell? That squaring of the circle should be a wonder to behold. Can’t have people growing their own medicine, after all. No one makes money off of that!
And people wonder why liberals think corporations are evil? I’m extremely disappointed that the Obama administration is going along with this crap.
Dear Mr. Rosario,
I’d like to make known two things:
1. I agree with very little of what you write.
2. I still read all of it because it’s just that good. Your work is engaging, so much so as to keep this ultra-conservative coming back for more every day. Do you convince me? Never. Entertain and inspire me on my own journey as a novelist? As one of my heroines would say, “you betcha!”
It would be better for our economy to allow the rise of the “truck farm” as it used to be known through the legalization of production of cannabis for all purposes, but even if it is legalized and firmly in corporate control there would be vast benefits to humanity. When entering a battle which cannot be won completely you must carefully select your objectives; a failure to do so will result in a complete loss which holds less benefit than a partial victory.
Legalization alone would save about $30 billion per year in law enforcement expenditures, and basing an estimate of the possible tax revenues on the average formed by the entire domestic economy suggests that we could eliminate up to 1% of the combined deficits in local, state and federal budgets by a simple federal act. How perfect would it be if this proposed federal legislation were printed on hemp paper, just like in the old days? More sarcasm with this flavor can easily be found on my website.