I don't think all pills are bogus. I accept there are times where such substances are absolutely necessary. I know cannabis won't treat my endometriosis, only lessen the pain at best, no matter how sick my pills make me. :/
The drugs are produced to treat disease but I feel profit margins have become increasing more important to the manufacturers. I understand it does come across as crazy conspiracy theory but only now have people realised those high up I the banking industry never had the common peoples best interests at heart, people are only just paying attention to the dangers I statins (however much they might help some), fluoride as aforementioned. The drugs listed in their comparison to cannabis and those recalled by the FDA are also heavily pushed and consistent money makers. Pharma might help us out here and there but they are still a business like any other (that often sponsors large companies and work hard to protect their media image) and profit is very high on their agenda. It is a massive money making industry that feeds off our illness .
Please read for someone who knows more about the industry than I do
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/bad-pharma-a-manifesto-to-fix-the-pharmaceutical-industry/
Question: Why has cannabis been long suppressed as an option for alternative treatment for a number of ailments until recently when pharmaceutical and cigarette companies have applied for patents on actual cannabis and cannabis based products?
Answer: Because they want the monopoly- the control and the money
The sad thing is even the best intentioned people, when it all comes down to it.., they are swayed by gross potential to gain. We have the mentality that they /must/ only release drugs proven to be safe, effective and non addictive. If it is legal it is safe/good/ok
Not necessarily so
Interestingly I saw a documentary recently about the rise in these new 'legal highs' being made in laboratories that emulate cannabis but are in fact FAR more dangerous. I've seen many I then sold and they are too readily available to impressionable teenagers. The teen being followed on the documentary was asked if he'd ever smoke cannabis, and the child replied never because he wouldn't break the law and he'd heard bad things about it.
When asked about the substances described below
http://www.livescience.com/18646-synthetic-marijuana-dangerous-health.html
(there have been many fatalities directly from its use as opposed to cannabis which is virtually impossible to overdose on and has no deaths ascribed directly to it)
Whilst in the process of casually purchasing them, the cameraman asked if he thought there was any risk involved with taking the legal drug as opposed to cannabis to which he replies that if there was anything wrong with it it wouldnt be legal and they wouldn't sell it everywhere.
Simply not the case, and it's all very sad and nonsensical. When drugs with very dangerous and immediate adverse effects are well known the public and manufacturers, but they are distributed anyway and something with far greater reward:risk ratio like cannabis is under lock and key. Unless you are paying a pharmaceutical company for it that is.
Hmm :/
If it were all about us wanting a license for getting high, then over the counter heroin and other approved 'goodies' would be more than enough. We are not even advocating the legality of heroin despite the routine opiate use in medicine even though they are incredibly addictive and downright dangerous. Can't tell you how many emergency room visits were down to prescription drugs
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