There is nothing more valuable to the fascists than their drug war and they cannot let go of cannabis as it is the center pole in their prohibition circus. Four in five people favor medical marijuana, as they should, but it does not make any difference. It is a fascist country with the pill pimpers climbing from the $200 billion level to the $250 billion dollar level in just the last few years.
The cannabis extract, Sativex, has now been approved for Canada after the fascist regulators were so successful in keeping it off the market in the UK when all expectations were for approval before the end of 2003. There is a long history of cannabis as medicine and all kinds of demonization studies that only back up the safety of cannabis. It all does not matter, as the pill companies will not let their servants in Congress cut into their profits.
There will be no way the prohibitionists can deny the eventuality of what is to come as cannabis will certainly be recognized by all as the most medicinal plant on the planet. Sativex has opened the gate on the stonewall position of government and the testimonies will roll in by the thousands and then the tens of thousands. Anyone that studies the cannabis attitude of government understands that the best path is not important as it is clear the worst path is what is desired by the fascists that now govern everything. Even they see medicinal cannabis as inevitable even in the most prohibitionist of all countries, that being the US. What we have before us as the prohibitionists go to plan B is the ""Pharmaceuticalization of Marijuana." Fred Gardner wrote about that recently at CounterPunch.org-
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