



The US Government holds patents for the medical use of marijuana (US Patent 6630507 titled “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants”). The US Government continues to deny that that marijuana has any medical benefits. And it all leaves one to wonder why anyone would go to the trouble of patenting something that is useless.



No sorry, nobody would patent something that is useless as there would be absolutely no reason to.

Apparently, like with just about everything else under the sun, the U.S. Government feels that marijuana is only useful if they can make money from it.

The Government’s patent obtained in October of 2003, states that, “Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids 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.”

THC is one of the cannabinoids found in cannabis which the US Gov’s patent covers the medical use for.

They’ve revealed that they know that marijuana has significant medical benefits by patenting it, still they consistently deny the benefits of medical marijuana. And FDA spokesperson has even stated (lied) that, “smoked marijuana has no currently accepted or proven medical use in the United States and is not an approved medical treatment”. Accepted by who? Not approved by who?

The benefits of marijuana are accepted by millions of people, who also approve of it. But as always the Government wants to control it and profit from it, and as the saying goes “the Government hates competition”. With marijuana the “competition” is anyone who can plant a seed. Unfortunately for the Government they are fighting an uphill battle which not even they can win, as marijuana “grows like a weed”. Literally.

Perhaps the biggest reason the Government has for “censoring” the free use of marijuana by people, is that the Government and their FDA have many ties to “Big Pharma”, the pharmaceutical industry such as receiving big money from them to protect their market and other interests through laws. Of course, the more people who use marijuana for their medicinal uses, the less people there are to buy the overpriced drugs produced (and pushed) by “Big Pharma”.

Also of course, many people within the Government and its sphere of influence have ownership in and profit highly from the private prison industry. The “Drug War” puts more “customers” into those prisons by making “criminals” out of non-violent offenders who have done nothing more than exercise the freedom the SHOULD have to choose what they want to put in their own body.

At the “end of the day”, proponents for the legalization of marijuana will win and are already winning. The “cat is out of the bag”. People who want to smoke marijuana do so and will continue doing so.

A long time ago it was written in The Declaration of Independence that Governments “derive their just powers” (ONLY) from the consent of the governed. The power of the Government is legitimate ONLY when the people consent to that power. This is the truth, and no matter how hard they try to trick people into believing otherwise, the people intuitively know deep down that WE THE PEOPLE have the final say and will win that battle sooner or later.

The Government is SUPPOSED to serve the people, not be a tool (more like a sledgehammer) that those within the Government can use to control and profit off of the people like a leach. A person does not need to “have a problem with authority” to recognize that the authority of the government is simply not legitimate beyond what THE PEOPLE consent to.

CONSENT? No means no, in other words. We say, “NO, you cannot violate OUR RIGHT to freely choose to have and do what we want: That is called rape (there are different forms of rape, some more serious than others, but force without consent is rape whatever the situation is)”.

The rights of each of us go as far as the rights of someone else begins: If we’re not damaging another person or their property, there is no crime (that literally is the definition of a “crime”: There has to be ACTUAL DAMAGE to another person or their property otherwise there is no actual crime. As you probably already know that’s where we get the term “victimless crime”, false “crimes” which people get popped for basically so that governments can get money out of them. And yes for anyone who doesn’t know governments are corporations, whether national, city, local, etc: And like all corporations they exist largely for the purpose of collecting revenue).

So surprise surprise it all comes down to money and control. The answer (IMHO): Do what you want, don’t hurt anyone else, and if the Government or anyone else STILL tells you that you’re wrong then we just look them in their shifty money-leeching eyes and inform them that their authority is NOT legitimate as we do NOT give our consent for their actions.

420.

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