DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for BigPharma but keep it a crime for every1 else

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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.
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Learn more:
http://www.naturalnews.com/031489_DEA_legalized_marijuana.html#ixzz1F61Wg6tt

lol....8)
 
A natural THC extract would just be really strong hash. Cannabidiol and cannabinol are not themselves scheduled, and being the only other constituents of hash oil with any psychoactivity, it'd be really hard to argue that plain old hash oil is not schedule III. Furthermore, it's extremely unlikely that cannabidiol or cannabinol will get scheduled as the former is an antipsychotic and the latter is an antagonist.

I suppose they could include some sort of "prepared for smoking" clause, but that's pretty damn speculative, since one can smoke pills or dried-out tinctures. Maybe some company will sell a tincture of hash and the whole thing will come crashing down like so many Tinkertoys.
 
cannabidiol and cannabinol are most definitely schedule 1:

(16) The term ''marihuana'' means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of such plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such plant, its seeds or resin. Such term does not include the mature stalks of such plant, fiber produced from such stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of such plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of such plant which is incapable of germination.
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http://www.fda.gov/regulatoryinformation/legislation/ucm148726.htm

(The FASEB Journal. 2008;22:711.1.)
© 2008 FASEB
711.1
Scheduling process at DEA - the example of cannabidiol
Sandy G Ghozland, James M Tolliver, Susan M Carr and Christine A Sannerud

Drug And Chemical Evaluation Section - Office of Diversion Control, Drug Enforcement Administration, Arlington, VA

ABSTRACT

DEA collects and reviews scientific, medical and other data on substances to determine their abuse potential and placement into the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The scientific data reviewed includes in vitro pharmacology and pre-clinical abuse liability studies. In particular, data on discriminative stimulus effects and rewarding properties is essential to determining whether a substance belongs in a class of drugs already scheduled, and to predict its abuse potential. The medical data reviewed includes laboratory-controlled clinical studies. Databases and surveys on drug abuse patterns, illicit trafficking and seizures provide DEA with valuable information on the actual abuse of a drug and its consequences on health, public health and public safety.

Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of many cannabinoids present in marijuana, and as such is in schedule I of the CSA. DEA is currently conducting a scientific review of CBD to elucidate its pharmacology and abuse liability and to identify gaps in the published literature.
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http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/22/1_MeetingAbstracts/711.1
 
I don't see how this is surprising at all. Morphine is a CII, meaning I can possess morphine with a prescription, but I can't grow poppies in my front yard and make morphine. This is just more typical government feeding pharmacutical companies and vice versa. Imagine if marijuana was legal and how much money these companies would lose out on, it'll never happen as long as they have their hooks in the government.
 
Since they cant patent the plant lets make a pill, whoppaa :p
This is wrong on sooo many levels
 
these companies wouldnt lose out. theyd just take over the growing. theyd hire growers to work for them.

hmmm grow weed in my room/backyard or get a yearly salary and work in a high tech growhouse? i know watd i do
 
this has nothing to do with our country, this is the capitalist system we fight for. it took you until too late to realize what is and now you wanna blame our government? this has nothing to do with gov this is how capitalism is supposed to be run.
 
SDforever420 said:
Anyone else have a feeling this might give them a excuse to eliminate medial marijuana dispenserys and the such?
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the pill doesn't work with everyone. also a 30 minute wait for relief vs a 30 second one is a huge difference.


more likely is that they would have prevented the formation of dispensaries as opposed to letting them spread then attempting to shut em down

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