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isoLadyOwner -> RE: DOJ Launches 'Coordinated Crackdown' on Medical Marijuana (10/9/2011 1:38:18 AM)
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
Real, big agriculture, big pharma, hell, even big oil would benefit from commercially viable and widely available marijuana/hemp. They are not the ones holding it back. You could make a better case for the prison guards being to blame.
The blockage is cultural, not corporate.
Prison guard unions, prison food suppliers, jumpsuit manufacturers, concrete, steel, cheap labor from prisoners, less unemployed citizens (prisoners are essentially property of the State). There are a number of reasons the US jails its citizens at an astonishingly high rate for victimless crimes.
Money and a puritanical culture are primary motivations.
Here's a link to the DEA site:
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/fed_regs/rules/2010/fr1101.htm
Big Pharma pushed for reclassification of THC and Obama broke another promise shortly thereafter.
Schedule I to Schedule III is a big step. Schedule II meds can't be refilled and require a hard copy presented to a Pharmacist, they can't be faxed.
Big Pharma fights to get their meds Schedule III classed and to avoid Schedule II restrictions.
"The DEA has received four petitions from companies that have products that are currently the subject of ANDAs under review by the FDA. Each product is a generic formulation of Marinol[supreg] and contains dronabinol, the (-) isomer of delta-9-(trans)- tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is a schedule I controlled substance. These petitions each requests amendments to Controlled Substances Act (CSA) regulations that would have the effect of transferring the proposed generic Marinol[supreg] product from schedule I to schedule III."
Lobbying isn't a conspiracy. Big Pharma has a huge stake in Prohibition as does the private prison industry.
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