My government is doing the bidding of the big pharma folks who have the deep pockets.
I don't particularly care what is called a valid medical treatment if someone has their pain alleviated by marijuana and it isn't hurting anyone else, that should be enough.
I don't think anyone having a hard time with pain, nausea or the general aggravation associated with some medical treatment should be dictated to. In some cases this is a end of, or possible end of life decision, so if ingesting some high potency grade marijuana takes the edge off, good for them.
Again though, because you could potentially grow this stuff at home and not require a prescription, a pharmaceutical company to produce it, or some sort of .gov controls to regulate it, it simply wont happen.
The same guys who bought John Boherner three or four Scotch's with his dinner as they lobbied him to keep fighting that War on Drugs, or to keep marijuana laws in place so patients didn't get that option, didn't conveniently see their hypocrisy because there simply wasn't any cash in it for them.
But John got his Scotch didn't he? Now that they aren't buying John Scotch anymore;
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/u...marijuana.html
John A. Boehner, the speaker of the House from 2011 to 2015, reversed a long-held stance against marijuana legalization on Wednesday, saying on Twitter that “my thinking on cannabis has evolved.”
Mr. Boehner, a Republican leader who in 2011 told a constituent he was “unalterably opposed” to legalization, joined the board of advisers of Acreage Holdings, a cannabis corporation that operates in 11 states.
So let's not fool ourselves, it's not about patients, or studies or laws, it's about money and our legislators being bought off by pharmaceutical company lobbyists.
Ironically here we sit in front of computers on a web site devoted to guns and keeping our Second Amendment, when our other freedoms are being bought and sold by lobbyists in Washington DC.
Your Freedoms and your adult decisions should be left to the individual and not bought and sold like stocks and bonds.
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