The focus is on finding the negative side of
marijuana and not the mountains of
independent
research
showing
the
overwhelming benefits.
Instead of researching the “supposed
benefits”, why not just pretend they do not
exist.
“It started in 1963, when Mechoulam applied
for NIH (National Institute of Health) funding
and was told that cannabis research wasn’t of
interest to the agency because marijuana
wasn’t an “American problem,” recalls
Mechoulam. “They told me to let them know
when I have something more relevant to the
U.S.” A year later, Mechoulam received
another call from the same official.
A U.S. senator, whose name the official
withheld from Mechoulam, had caught his
son smoking weed. The senator had asked the
NIH what effect the drug might have on his
son’s brain. To the embarrassment of
America’s top public health agency, no one
could answer the question; there was no
research on file. The NIH official asked
Mechoulam if he was still working on
cannabis. For the next 45 years, the NIH gave
Mechoulam’s team approximately $100,000
per year to study, for example, how
cannabinoids can lower human resistance to
antibiotics.”
Read more at
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/us-govt-funding-
israeli-researcher/#qMPlvhwG1rzO24z2 )
Is it any wonder that we are hearing about
covert research being carried out on foreign
soil, funded by Americans, yet being withheld
from the American Public?
Should we be surprised that the same research
was going on and being funded while the
American Public was being denied the benefit
of the research?
While Big Pharma dumps buckets of cold,
hard cash into fighting the legalisation of its
mortal enemy – cannabis – the US
Government has been funding its research for
years, just do not ask them about it.
Big Pharma sees legalisation as a major threat
to its already gargantuan profit margins.
It is any wonder that they are adamant that
legalisation be stopped at all cost?
Big Pharma, along with Police and Guard
unions, and Tobacco and Alcohol make up the
largest groups protesting and lobbying
against marijuana law reformation.
It is easy to see how all these groups would
see legalisation as a detriment to their
livelihood. Marijuana, cannabis, and the like,
have been in the foreground of this “war”
since its inception.
Sure, the police and guards will see fewer
prisoners. I would think less money spent on
housing marijuana users would mean more
money for issues that deserve notice, like
pensions for officers and funds set up for the
families of those who die protecting us.
I would love to see the US of A put money
into our veterans, not our prisons.
The American Public is awakening to the
reality of cannabis being viable in a myriad of
medical applications. Meanwhile, the Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA), based on the
recommendations of the FDA, has taken a
hard-nosed stance on the legalisation of
marijuana: nope.
The DEA is the spearhead of the now
infamous, yet vastly debated, “War on Drugs”
which was first brought into existence under
the leadership of our very own Ronald
Reagan. The main spokesperson for this new
campaign was none other than Mrs. Nancy
Reagan. It is a good example of the type of
mentality of the time. Older, conservative,
and less than receptive to new ideas.
We can say that, as with all out-dated ways of
thought, they were doing what they thought
best for society at the time.
By ...or can we?
It seems as if covert and open research
operations around the world are showing that
the benefits of cannabis are, by far,
outweighing the negatives.