Dispensaries, B.S. Federal Schedule 1 Laws & the medical/prison industries
It all depends on how it plays out and the pressure level of the fed and dea. This is why states and the US as a whole needs to push for full legalization.
The way they shut down medical dispensaries and then use that pull to limit growing and others in the medical community is by keeping cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug. This means the federal gov doesn't recognize any medical values - which allows them to then shut down dispensaries as locations that distribute a sch 1 drug and don't acknowledge the medical basis for why the dispensary is there.
Legalization would jump over this BS loophole and essentially remove the ability for the medical uses of the plant to be questioned by the fed. Dispensaries are incredibly needed in the medical marijuana field, many patients who are just starting need medicine right away and can't wait months or the learning curve of growing good bud. Some patients are too sick to grow even if they wanted to - it also helps allow patients to try out many more genetics than they could grow - in order to see which strains work best for different conditions. Not to mention having the dispensaries selling cuts of the same genetics they sell - so patients can replicate what works best for them on their own.
Medical Marijuana should always stay, but we need to move to full legalization in order to protect the medical sector from the FED - given the unconstitutionally totalitarian means the DEA and fed have put towards MM.
The Pharmaceutical companies also have big stakes in ensuring that medical marijuana is shut down. The main backbone of the prescription industry is the ability to patent medicine as a company. Anything that grows naturally - which hasn't been synthesized or modified (Intellectual property rights) cannot be patented. For instance, Vitamin C, D, E etc cannot be patented, just like growing cannabis. This is why they are not raiding factories producing and selling Marinol (Prescription synthetic THC) - but instead are raiding places that sell bud, edibles etc. - forms of the drug the corporate/political lobbyists can't patent. This also plays into a lot of the suppression of medical breakthroughs around cannabis - because it threatens the income, industry and holdings of all these companies who sell medicines for conditions that cannabis can treat as well, and usually a lot safer.
I definitely think Dispensaries are paramount in the compassionate and practical applications of medical marijuana. The main thing is preventing the lie-based terms of the DEA who refuse to acknowledge the 10s of hundreds of primary articles on cannabis's medical benefits. However most of the developments from there are synthetic forms of cannabinoids that can be patented by the 'medical industry complex'. There are already over 6,000+ patents held for cannabis research and synthetic cannabinoids.
Link to all the Cannabinoid Patents @ http://www.patentstorm.us/search.html?q=cannabinoid&s.x=0&s.y=0
It's similar to the Du Pont and the Chemical/Wood companies battles against cannabis - which didn't require their toxic pesticides to grow like cotton and also could replace the wood industry. Now it's not just what agriculture you buy, this greed is well integrated into aspects of the medical industry where - it becomes obvious that bottle-necked profit is valued over safety or having the most or best choices for treatment.Just like with the prison industry writing laws and lobbying for keeping Cannabis Schedule 1 (with jail sentences) or longer jail sentences etc.
Profit should not reign over possibilities of freedom and progression towards more effective and safer medicines or societies.
It all depends on how it plays out and the pressure level of the fed and dea. This is why states and the US as a whole needs to push for full legalization.
The way they shut down medical dispensaries and then use that pull to limit growing and others in the medical community is by keeping cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug. This means the federal gov doesn't recognize any medical values - which allows them to then shut down dispensaries as locations that distribute a sch 1 drug and don't acknowledge the medical basis for why the dispensary is there.
Legalization would jump over this BS loophole and essentially remove the ability for the medical uses of the plant to be questioned by the fed. Dispensaries are incredibly needed in the medical marijuana field, many patients who are just starting need medicine right away and can't wait months or the learning curve of growing good bud. Some patients are too sick to grow even if they wanted to - it also helps allow patients to try out many more genetics than they could grow - in order to see which strains work best for different conditions. Not to mention having the dispensaries selling cuts of the same genetics they sell - so patients can replicate what works best for them on their own.
Medical Marijuana should always stay, but we need to move to full legalization in order to protect the medical sector from the FED - given the unconstitutionally totalitarian means the DEA and fed have put towards MM.
The Pharmaceutical companies also have big stakes in ensuring that medical marijuana is shut down. The main backbone of the prescription industry is the ability to patent medicine as a company. Anything that grows naturally - which hasn't been synthesized or modified (Intellectual property rights) cannot be patented. For instance, Vitamin C, D, E etc cannot be patented, just like growing cannabis. This is why they are not raiding factories producing and selling Marinol (Prescription synthetic THC) - but instead are raiding places that sell bud, edibles etc. - forms of the drug the corporate/political lobbyists can't patent. This also plays into a lot of the suppression of medical breakthroughs around cannabis - because it threatens the income, industry and holdings of all these companies who sell medicines for conditions that cannabis can treat as well, and usually a lot safer.
I definitely think Dispensaries are paramount in the compassionate and practical applications of medical marijuana. The main thing is preventing the lie-based terms of the DEA who refuse to acknowledge the 10s of hundreds of primary articles on cannabis's medical benefits. However most of the developments from there are synthetic forms of cannabinoids that can be patented by the 'medical industry complex'. There are already over 6,000+ patents held for cannabis research and synthetic cannabinoids.
Link to all the Cannabinoid Patents @ http://www.patentstorm.us/search.html?q=cannabinoid&s.x=0&s.y=0
It's similar to the Du Pont and the Chemical/Wood companies battles against cannabis - which didn't require their toxic pesticides to grow like cotton and also could replace the wood industry. Now it's not just what agriculture you buy, this greed is well integrated into aspects of the medical industry where - it becomes obvious that bottle-necked profit is valued over safety or having the most or best choices for treatment.Just like with the prison industry writing laws and lobbying for keeping Cannabis Schedule 1 (with jail sentences) or longer jail sentences etc.
Profit should not reign over possibilities of freedom and progression towards more effective and safer medicines or societies.
