Health, cannabis was not involved in these
studies at all, only a synthetic ECS stimulant
designed to mimic cannabis’s effects.
The effects of the synthetic chemical
compounds on the endocannabinoid system
were, indeed, a dangerous factor.
Since no one can patent a wild plant,
pharmaceutical industries turn to their labs
and chemistry to recreate nature.
The drug Marinol is an example of a
pharmaceutical chemical compound that is
produced by Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. and
used to mimic nature.
It contains a nearly identical molecular
structure as the THC molecule and has similar
effects of marijuana on cancer patients in
regards to increasing appetite, etc. But unlike
its natural counterpart, Marinol does not grow
on trees.
This impulse to exclusively own the rights to
life-saving medicines is nothing new.
However, with the ever-increasing scientific
data showing the miraculous effects of
cannabis on healing the human body, Big
Pharma is hurriedly attempting to imitate
these same effects — in their labs.
This haste is proving to be deadly, at least in
one example, in France….
According to Ouest France, a recent test
conducted by Biotrial, on behalf of the
Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial, has
left six people hospitalized in Rennes.
One of those six people was declared
clinically dead at the University Hospital of
Rennes last week.
After news of the hospitalisations broke,
media around the world began putting out
misleading headlines about cannabis research
being the cause. However, according to
Marisol Touraine, France’s Minister of
The pill acted on the body’s endocannabinoid
system. Taken orally, the drug was
undergoing a Phase 1 clinical trial at a
licensed private European laboratory that
specialises in clinical trials, the French health
ministry said.
Attempting to recreate the natural analgesic
effects of cannabis, this pharmaceutical
company unwittingly killed someone and
gravely injured several others.
Why would these serious risks be taken when
cannabis provides a clearly safer alternative?
Well, for starters, in countries around the
planet, in order to study the effects of
cannabis, it is particularly difficult — because
it is illegal.
Big pharma also plays a large role in why
cannabis is illegal too, as they lobby state
officials to keep it that way.
However, the crumbling illegality of cannabis
is only part of the reason Big Pharma is
rushing into the lab to synthesize its effects.
As the Free Thought Project pointed out
earlier this month, a new survey of adults
found that 80% of respondents reported
substituting cannabis for their prescription
drugs. There is a mass exodus from pills to pot
— and the industry is scared.
Of course, no one is advocating for the
cessation of pharmaceutical innovation as
many pharmaceutical medications have
proven to be incredibly beneficial. However,
when governments and Big Pharma collude,
through the use of patents and prohibition, to
create a synthetic product, that merely mimics
the effects of a plant ingested by millions
daily, and people are hurt in the process,
something must be said.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/big-pharma-
synthesizing-cannabis-patent-able-pill-killing-
people/prohibition crumbles away in other states.”