Big bucks keeps cannabis illegal

CANNABIS has no lethal dose and its pharmacological effects have never caused a death in more than 5,000 years of recorded history.

The (unseen) driving force against medical (or unrestricted adult) legalisation of cannabis is the fact that cannabis can’t be patented. This precludes the need for big business to be involved and that fact makes cannabis commercially unattractive to the pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol industries. It seems that if a government can’t profit from it successfully, then it can’t justify legalisation, even for the sick and dying.

Furthermore, the war on cannabis drives the war on drugs. Without cannabis prohibition, the drug war would be reduced to a pillow fight. This is the politics and the economics of cannabis prohibition.