The Federal Government Just Broke Its Medical-Marijuana Promise

Guy Cavallero;3769613 said:

Nightmask;3769598 said:

Insys Therapeutics, an embattled drug developer that has two approved drugs on the market
Say what now? An embattled drug developer? Insys Therapeutics? Another article posted on here titled Insys Fighting Cannabis Legalization - It Would Limit Commercial Success Of Its Drugs talks about them perfectly:

Insys produces a fentanyl-based opioid which is "80 to 100 times more powerful than morphine and about 40 to 50 times more potent than 100% pure heroin" and is greatly responsible for the current opioid epidemic that according to the CDC is claiming the lives of 91 Americans every day or more than 33,000 every year. If you or I killed just one person we'd get thrown in jail for 20 to life, but if you're a massive corporation you can mass murder tens of thousands of people every single year from an actually dangerous and addictive drug and not only avoid jail but also rake in obscene profit from killing almost a hundred people a day.

Insys also gave half a million dollars to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, a group who oppose cannabis legalization. Although their public reason for opposing marijuana legalization was "because it "fails to protect" Arizona's children" (it's amazing how often 'think of the children' is used by those in power to prevent or push for certain laws), however their real reason for opposing the legalization of cannabis is because they have produced a synthetic cannabinoid called Dronabinol and if cannabis were legalized then "the market for dronabinol product sales would likely be significantly reduced and our [Insys] ability to generate revenue and our business prospects would be materially adversely affected." Insys paid half a million dollars to a group to oppose cannabis legalization not because cannabis is 'dangerous' or 'harms children' but because it would significantly reduce the profits that Insys could generate from their synthetic cannabinoid. That's right, people allowed to access the plant to smoke or eat is bad but a synthetic fake copy of one or more substances from that plant in pill form is perfectly fine because the pill will generate billions of dollars in profit for Big Harma, the industry of death, whereas if cannabis were legal people could grow it themselves or buy it from a local store and could get their healing from a miracle plant instead of a pharmaceutical pill.

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