wakingtimes | In 2011 the federal government decreed that marijuana had no accepted medical use use and
should remain classified as a highly dangerous drug like heroin.
Accepting and promoting the powerful health benefits of marijuana would
instantly cut huge profits geared towards cancer treatment and the U.S.
would have to admit it imprisons the population for no cause. Nearly
half of all drug arrests in the United States are for marijuana.
According to MarijuanaNews.com editor Richard Cowan, the answer is because it is a threat to cannabis prohibition “…there really is massive proof that
the suppression of medical cannabis represents the greatest failure of
the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism, science, and
our fundamental values,” Cowan notes.
While Colorado and Washington have not yet set up their regulatory
systems, both states will likely sell licenses to farmers who want to
grow marijuana as well as to manufacturing plants and retail sellers.
The marijuana will also likely be taxed at each stage of its growth,
processing, and sale.
“In both Colorado and Washington, legalization was done by citizens
with no participation by elected representatives until they had to pass
laws to comply with the initiative. In other initiative states I would
expect such measures – I would expect a new one in California, for
instance – and roughly half the states permit this and the rest don’t.
“In the states that do have initiatives I expect efforts to get it on
the ballot. The other half it will be much tougher. It’s hard to get
elected representatives to do this,” Collins said.
Armantano is more optimistic about the spread of legalized pot. He
compared the DOJ’s announcement to the federal government’s actions
toward the end of alcohol prohibition in America a century ago, when
states decided to stop following the federal ban on alcohol sales and
the federal government said it would not step in and prosecute crimes.
“For first time we now have clear message from fed government saying
they will not stand in way of states that wish to implement alternative
regulatory schemes in lieu of federal prohibition,” Armantano said.
He predicted that within the next one to three years, five or six
other states may join Colorado and Washington in legalizing the drug,
setting the stage for the rest of the country to follow.
The Age of Deception is Ending
In 2003, the U.S. Government as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services filed for, and was awarded a patent on cannabinoids.
The reason? Because research into cannabinoids allowed pharmaceutical
companies to acquire practical knowledge on one of the most powerful
antioxidants and neuroprotectants known to the natural world.
The U.S. Patent 6630507 was
specifically initiated when researchers found that cannabinoids had
specific antioxidant properties making them useful in the treatment and
prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as
ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The
cannabinoids are found to have particular application as
neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following
ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of
neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s
disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as
cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid
toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high
doses useful in the method of the present invention.
Besides the top 10 health benefits below, findings published in the journalPLoS ONE, researchers have now have now discovered that marijuana-like chemicals trigger receptors on human immune cells that can directly inhibit a type of human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) found in late-stage AIDS.
Recent studies have even shown it to be an effective atypical anti-psychotic in treating schizophrenia, a disease many other studies have inconsistently found it causing.
