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DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else
#14024044 - 02/25/11 05:20 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else
(NaturalNews) Have no illusions about the true nature of the so-called "War on Drugs" and the actions of the DEA. The War on Drugs has always been about protecting the profits of the drug companies which have a long and well-documented history of copying street drugs, repackaging them as "medications" and selling them to children as FDA-approved drugs (see below).
Today, yet another example emerges as the DEA moves to legalize THC in Big Pharma's pills while simultaneously making it illegal for anyone else to grow, sell or possess THC. The DEA, you see, is working to change the classification of THC from a schedule I substance (like street heroin) to a schedule III drug (pharmaceuticals). So if Big Pharma grows its own marijuana plants, extracts the THC and puts it into a "pot pill," those pills will be perfectly legal. They're already FDA approved, actually, when made with the synthetic version of THC.
But if a guy grows the very same chemical in his backyard, then extracts THC from those plants -- even for his own personal use -- suddenly he's guilty of committing a federal crime and will likely be subjected to an armed raid by DEA agents.
The DEA answers to its pharma slave masters Why would the DEA decide to legalize THC only for pharmaceutical companies? Well, because Big Pharma requested it, of course! As the DEA says on the subject:
"The DEA has received four petitions from companies that have products that are currently the subject of ANDAs (abbreviated new drug applications) under review by the FDA. ...While the petitioners cite that their generic products are bioequivalent to Marinol, their products do not meet schedule III current definition provided above. Therefore, these firms have requested that 21 CFR 1308.13(g)(1) be expanded to include naturally derived or synthetically produced dronabinol."
You can read it all at the DEA's own website: http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/f...
The DEA goes on to say:
"This proposed action expands the schedule III listing to include formulations having naturally-derived dronabinol and products encapsulated in hard gelatin capsules. This would have the effect of transferring the FDA-approved versions of such generic Marinol[supreg] products from schedule I to schedule III."
Just so you can make total sense of this, the DEA's loopy logic is that since Marinol (an FDA-approved synthetic THC drug) is already recognized as a pharmaceutical, the DEA is saying that other generic drugs containing natural THC from marijuana plants can also be recognized as a pharmaceutical. What they fail to recognize is that even the synthetic THC is, of course, based on natural THC grown in marijuana plants!
It's classic Big Government pseudoscientific quackery: Only "synthetic" chemicals are considered authoritative, even when those synthetics were stolen from nature in the first place.
Your doctor is your new dealer So now, thanks to the DEA and its twisted position on THC, your doctor is now your dealer and Big Pharma steps in to take over the manufacturing and distribution of drugs that have traditionally been handled by street criminals and Mexican drug gangs. That's what this was always about of course: Big Pharma taking over the drug trade, using its own private gang of armed enforcers known as DEA agents.
It's a lot like Mexico, in fact: Armed enforcers, drug profits, turf wars... except in the U.S., it's all "legal" under the monopolistic protection of the FDA -- an agency that has always sought to protect Big Pharma's market monopolies.
What's astonishing about all this is the DEA's insanity in saying that the very same chemical can be legal for corporations to sell you but illegal for you to grow yourself using a natural plant. THC is THC, after all, and if this chemical is so "incredibly dangerous" that the DEA must throw people in prison for daring to grow it, possess it or sell it, why is it suddenly okay for corporations to do the exact same thing?
You already know the answer: The DEA's position on marijuana and hemp has always been based on the king of warped logic you only get if you're smoking crack.
The DEA becomes armed enforcement branch of Big Pharma The real job of the DEA, you see, is not to protect people from dangerous drugs, but rather to protect the profits of Big Pharma by shooting, arresting or otherwise destroying anything that competes with Big Pharma. Namely, street dealers of marijuana.
It's not the first time the DEA has done this, of course. Drugs that used to be sold on the street as "speed" are now FDA-approved pharmaceutical medications for ADHD -- and they're being prescribed to children by the tens of millions!
Every successful drug operation needs henchmen who run around with guns eliminating the competition. In a drug gang, that used to be the job of "Frankie" back in the Sicilian mob days. But today, with Big Pharma, it's the job of the DEA.
Hilariously, this announcement by the DEA was posted by their "Office of Diversion Control" (http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/f...). For once, they're honest: It is a diversion! A diversion to prevent people from realizing the truth about the DEA, the War on Drugs and the pharmaceutical industry.
Because the DEA, of course, is the armed enforcement division of Big Pharma. It works hand in hand with the FDA, of course: The FDA legalizes Big Pharma drug dealing, and the DEA targets the competition for elimination. It's a bang-up job, a real one-two punch to protect the world's largest drug dealers of all... the drug companies themselves.
I wonder how long it will take before a few DEA agents will wake up and realize they are the armed mercs working for their corporate slave masters known as the pharmaceutical companies?
The real criminals, you see, are not the joint-smoking hippies getting high in their basements but rather the Big Pharma CEOs whose entire careers are dedicated to addicting people to their patented, FDA-approved pharmaceuticals... even when they're the exact same chemicals the DEA claims are "illegal drugs" on the street.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031489_DEA_legalized_marijuana.html#ixzz1EyLEYqyn
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Re: DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else [Re: Yrat]
#14024116 - 02/25/11 06:18 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I may not be awake enough yet to fully understand this article but wouldn't reclassifying marijuana from schedule 1 to schedule 3 be at least a step in the right direction? I agree that there is something inherently evil with big pharma and all of their money and lobbyist; but wouldn't changing marijuana to schedule 3 make simple possession for personal use a lesser crime? If so, I see that as a relatively good thing to the casual smoker.
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Re: DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else [Re: Epilson Lyrae]
#14024152 - 02/25/11 06:43 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Marijuana is not being reclassified. Pure THC is not being reclassified.
The author is pointing out that while THC remains Schedule I, there is a proposal for "Approved drug products containing THC" to be Schedule III. Thus, THC only becomes less restrictive in pharmaceutical form.
This is due to the arrival of generic drugs. THC was rescheduled more than a decade ago. Now that generics are coming to the market, the generics are requesting the same Scheduling status.
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Re: DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else [Re: Epilson Lyrae]
#14024154 - 02/25/11 06:44 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I dont know what to say..... It would be cool if the pharma grow cannabis for sick people, but on the other hand they criminalised cannabis for a long time. Do they see money in it now?
And that only the pharma allow to grow it,and other people not is real bad. Legalize it and give te people their freedom back to decide what they use as medicine,and not forced by the pharma/goverments. Let the people world wide grow their own cannabis, since it is a product giving to us by our mother nature.
Gives us our rights back. legalize it.
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Re: DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else [Re: henk600]
#14024157 - 02/25/11 06:45 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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(NaturalNews) Have no illusions about the true nature of the so-called "War on Drugs" and the actions of the DEA. The War on Drugs has always been about protecting the profits of the drug companies which have a long and well-documented history of copying street drugs, repackaging them as "medications" and selling them to children as FDA-approved drugs (see below).
Hmm i always read that it was the other way around. Big pharma invented drugs and later made sure they were illegal. such as XTC and LSD and amphetamines were all invented in pharmaceutical laboratories.
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Re: DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else [Re: badchad]
#14024163 - 02/25/11 06:48 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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badchad said: Marijuana is not being reclassified. Pure THC is not being reclassified.
The author is pointing out that while THC remains Schedule I, there is a proposal for "Approved drug products containing THC" to be Schedule III. Thus, THC only becomes less restrictive in pharmaceutical form.
This is due to the arrival of generic drugs. THC was rescheduled more than a decade ago. Now that generics are coming to the market, the generics are requesting the same Scheduling status.
Ok, Thanks for the clarification. I haven't given the coffee time enough to work.
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Re: DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else [Re: virus1824]
#14024743 - 02/25/11 10:27 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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virus1824 said:
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(NaturalNews) Have no illusions about the true nature of the so-called "War on Drugs" and the actions of the DEA. The War on Drugs has always been about protecting the profits of the drug companies which have a long and well-documented history of copying street drugs, repackaging them as "medications" and selling them to children as FDA-approved drugs (see below).
Hmm i always read that it was the other way around. Big pharma invented drugs and later made sure they were illegal. such as XTC and LSD and amphetamines were all invented in pharmaceutical laboratories.
Hmmm I think your last comment is a little misleading... albert hofmann, who found LSD, was working for a private research company (as I understand it), looking for medicinal uses of derritives in from various natural sources, including ergot; not a pharmecutical lab. MDMA (ecstasy) was first synthisized by alexander schulgin, who I do not believe was working in a "pharmecutical laboratory" in the mid-earlly 80's. Someone correct me if I am wrong
And also to add my 2cents on this article...this only proves my own questioning of the motivations of the DEA / federal government in implementing the schedule system... this pretty much proves to me, for lack of better terminology, that their concern is not keeping our saftey or keeping us from harming ourselves...its money 
hahaha as if we did not know this already
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Re: DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else [Re: LongStrangeTrip]
#14024757 - 02/25/11 10:30 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Oh and I just wiki'ed it and it seems that a chemist in 1887 firsy synthisized amphetamines....and MDMA was a intermediate product! . independent chemist, not working for a pharmecutical company at all....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamines
Oh yea it also cites all the natural sources for amphetmine....used as far back as ancient china
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Re: DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else [Re: LongStrangeTrip]
#14024778 - 02/25/11 10:33 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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LSD: Introduced by Sandoz Laboratories, with trade-name Delysid,
xtc: Anton Köllisch (1888-1916) was the German chemist who, whilst working at Darmstadt for pharmaceutical giant Merck, first synthesized the chemical MDMA that would later come to be known as "ecstasy".
amphetamine: Amphetamines were first synthesized in 1887 by the drug company Smith, Kline and French. by Lazăr Edeleanos.
Big pharma's. people don't invent this shit on their attics. Rest my case.
and just for kicks everyone's big favorite
Heroin: In 1895, the German drug company Bayer marketed diacetylmorphine as an over the counter drug under the trademark name Heroin.[9] It was chiefly developed as a morphine substitute for cough suppressants
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Re: DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else [Re: virus1824]
#14025182 - 02/25/11 12:13 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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virus1824 said: LSD: Introduced by Sandoz Laboratories, with trade-name Delysid,
xtc: Anton Köllisch (1888-1916) was the German chemist who, whilst working at Darmstadt for pharmaceutical giant Merck, first synthesized the chemical MDMA that would later come to be known as "ecstasy".
amphetamine: Amphetamines were first synthesized in 1887 by the drug company Smith, Kline and French. by Lazăr Edeleanos.
Big pharma's. people don't invent this shit on their attics. Rest my case.
and just for kicks everyone's big favorite
Heroin: In 1895, the German drug company Bayer marketed diacetylmorphine as an over the counter drug under the trademark name Heroin.[9] It was chiefly developed as a morphine substitute for cough suppressants
hahahaha thanks for clearing that one up 
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