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In reply to the discussion: House Votes To End DEA Raids On Legal Medical Marijuana Operations [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)This amendment was, I think, more about responding to the number of states who now have medical marijuana bills in the legislature or under consideration.
The reason for those many bills is because Sanjay Gupta vaulted the propaganda wall from the DEA, the NIDA, the Drug Czar's office, etc. with his reports on CNN about the use of medical marijuana for children, even, with life-threatening illnesses. Gupta also addressed the issue of the "entourage effect' of cannabis medicines (i.e. why synthetics are not good enough or even good) because whole plant cannabis works best as a medicine in its natural form, with all cannabinoids present.
A pharmaceutical company can only achieve this by also using whole-plant cannabis to make medicine - which is what GW Pharma has done with Sativex (although they are still doing research on synthetics.)
GW Pharma has petitioned the DEA to allow them to sell Sativex in the U.S. Andrea Barthwell, formerly of the Drug Czar Barthwells.. lol... and another Bush Jr. appointee have been lobbying for marijuana since they left office -but they pretend that's not what they're doing by claiming Sativex is not the same as whole plant cannabis, when video exists showing GW Pharma making Sativex out of whole plant cannabis.
It would be a joke if these people didn't make money putting people in prison for no crime, destroying families, wasting taxpayer money for prohibition of something safer than alcohol and lying their asses off since then.
I have little respect for anyone who has been involved in the prohibition side of the drug war - they don't deserve any.