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The Associated Press (AP) reports that GW Pharma, a British pharmaceutical company, is currently undergoing advanced clinical trials for the world's first drug made from raw marijuana, which it will seek FDA approval for by the end of 2013.
FDA may legalize pot medicine, but only for Big Pharma
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:02 PM EST
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Cannabis initiative captures place on ballot
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 17 hours ago
... Frank to sponsor legislation that would allow states to license and regulate sales of marijuana, and charges taxes on commercial sale of cannabis.
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#1 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:04 PM ESTThis isn't the first time I've heard of this. This is why the cannabis prohibition has been yet to be lifted. Well, that and the Tobacco lobby. Now corporatesville has figured out the way to make their money, patent whatever they come up with, and release it to the market as a prescribed drug...still controlled but profitable.
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#2 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 1:08 PM EST
No doubt big pharma will put something it is that has death as a side effect. I would not take it.
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#3 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:39 PM ESTThere is money in anything as long as you can get a sucker to buy it.
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#4 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:38 AM ESTFDA is in bed with Big Pharma. There is no transparency with this department and they continue to sell out the American people by continuing to give favortism and protections to Big Pharma, who is no longer regulated by anyone.
Take a look at who these FDA people are, and all of them have former ties to Pharmaceutical companies, alot are even former employees. Shouldn't this be an ethics violation in itself?
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#5 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:33 AM ESTThe primary reason this is important is because this plant will have to be rescheduled from a schedule 1, to a schedule 2. This is a major change in the FDA and the DEA and the DOJ is watching this very closely. To manufacture this medication they will have to reclassify it, so that alone, is important to those, who are legally permitted, in there individual state to possess the plant. To reclassify this herb also will allow each individual state to regulate it. In other words this action would free up the state and to let each state handle whatever voter mandated law they have. peace
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#6 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:22 PM ESTIn other words this action would free up the state and to let each state handle whatever voter mandated law they have.
That would definitely be a plus!
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It is funny how the only possible path to federal legalization is when big pharma gets to make money from it.
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I was thinking "sad" rather than funny, but I totally agree. Its indicative of priority in the US.
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Sorry, I forgot to put the /s tag at the end of my post in 6.3.
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actually i don't think they'll have to reclassify marijuana at all...the gov already has a patent on CBD's, which is like, THE, medical quality of marijuana...and cbd's are not scheduled as a schedule one drug...so it's like a backdoor way of legally using marijuana while keeping our hand outta their cookie jar too.
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are you referring to cannabanoids? I ask because most people aren't going to know that by CBD's. And I'm pretty sure you can't patent a naturally occuring chemical compound. They have a patent on the extraction process of cannabanoids from the plant.
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yep...and yep...they have a patent on CBD's...since 2003...they just haven't been able to patent a way to extract the CBD's until recently....here's that patent they have on CBD...note the assignees...sounds ridiculous, i know, but there it is...
patent #6630507
Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants
Inventors:
Hampson; Aidan J. (Irvine, CA), Axelrod; Julius (Rockville, MD), Grimaldi; Maurizio (Bethesda, MD)
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC)
Appl. No.:
09/674,028
Filed:
February 2, 2001
PCT Filed:
April 21, 1999
PCT No.:
PCT/US99/08769
PCT Pub. No.:
WO99/53917
PCT Pub. Date:
October 28, 1999
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6630507.PN.&OS=PN/6630507&RS=PN/6630507
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luckily i already have a way of manually extracting CBD's directly into my lungs...so screw em.
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