Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if big pharma fought this tooth and nail. I've had a few people in my family say that cannabis has really helped out their health. While some others have said it has done nothing to help them. 

But if big pharma are losing customers they will fight this for a long time!

Legalize people this is necessary!

Nice posts @doitvoluntarily

A FEW PUFFS ON A JOINT WILL TURN YOU IN UNEMPLOYED PSYCHOTH PROBABLY FOR LIFE  (shit thing)
A study in the journal Obesity found that regular weed smokers are less likely to be obese than non-smokers.

The researchers from Conference of Quebec University Health Centers looked at 700 adults aged 18-74 – and found that cannabis users tend to have low body mass index scores (often taken as a sign of good health).
People with low BMIs tend to have less body fats and tend to be at lower risk for diabetes

A 2012 study in Consciousness and Cognition found that marijuana made people more creative – at least in terms of how well they used languag
 
using marihuana not in a regualr way (each day) will improve your life

Big pharma has the money and lobby power and will push for legalization if it benefits them

Cannabis is as we speak being legalized in Canada, as of July 2018. I am on the fence. My daughter has an eating disorder and she is 12, the experts perscribed cannabis in a pill format without the effects, to increase her appitite. Also the oncology kids get the same pills after their chemo treatments. So it is a good thing, yes but for the recreational guy out there, please don't drive High, my 16 year old just got her licence.

Yes.  Sad but true.  Smart people at the ground level (norml, etc) are working on solutions, let's home one of them hits the mark.

Good Post!

I like the beer drinkers to stoners conversion article....

Too many Pharma drugs would become irreverent if people had access to cannabis medications

I used to work in a "coffeeshop" in Maastricht, The Netherlands selling pot,until politicians decided that no foreign people were allowed in anymore, only local residents. I had old sick people crying in front of me, that they had no safe place to buy their medicines (Belgium and Germany was nothing allowed at the time) and they had to go buy on the streets, not knowing what they would get... I myself (after my contract ended) was not allowed in anymore, even tho I'm Dutch and only lived 30km into Belgium... They do what they want, as long as we let them do it.

Great post man. Keep em coming.
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Excellent post, Cannabis has so many real medical uses that actually cures, while big pharma at best only masks the symptoms but does not make you healthier. The prison industry is also lobbying against cannabis legalization.

I live in Arkansas, where we just passed medical cannabis this past election. They are estimating  that 30-40k patients in AR will register for medical cannabis (have to have their family doctor sign off on it) by the time product is available in early 2018. I'm very curious to see the impact on the pharmaceutical industry.

We have a different kind of issue over here in the UK which is that we could be getting big pharma's version of cannabis before we get cannabis legalisation - at the moment we have companies like GW pharmaceuticals with a license who can grow and make (some) medical cannabis products e.g. Sativex, which can be prescribed despite the herbal form remaining illegal. 

I'm worried that we may see a legal cannabis-based-medicine market develop while cannabis remains illegal over here, which would be great for pharmaceutical companies, not good for medical consumers. But there are also promising developments in our campaigning, so time will tell. #LegaliseCannabis

The money involved in globally large corporations in medicine its amazing to me that cannabis is legal anywhere. I've heard most of them have larger budgets in legal teams (protecting patents, lawsuits etc) than actual medical research  shows you how messed up things are nowadays.

I say legalize it, but have same DWI driving penalties and you can not give it to someone without their knowledge. Go to jail if you do.

the raise of voting power had made seriously crazy money for users
for me , took me suddenly from $50 to $400 in a second lol
but do you think it will still high all the time or will be adjusted in the next update?

Another great post @doitvoluntarily!  Big Pharma wouldn't spend half a billion on lobbying if it wasn't money well spent! But keep voting like they ask kids, because it's not perpetuating a scam at all
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Great post, very important issue. Just saw and read your post and decided to publish our article from february on steemit, since it fits perfectly to your post/topic: https://steemit.com/cannabis/@anonnews/investigation-bayer-monsanto-set-to-take-over-marijuana-industry

I think cannabis is good if used medically and not an excuse for a recreation drug.

Don't worry they'll get their version of it in pill form legalized. It will have a side effects list a mile long and won't work half as good tho

Big pharma lobby is very powerful, but things moving in right direction.

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here is part of the problem, the incredible amount of money that is generated by fines in realtion to weed,. the state and federal governments make a killing fining people for use and possession, and what are we gonna do with all of those war on drug employees if marijuana suddenly became legal.

I think the pharma companies are set to profit from legalization. When canabis is a known alternative they must join the current. The way they will try and keep this evil monopoly is by issuing only tablets with inhalers with high regulation. This is sad but the good news it is still much better than current legal alternatives.

#I've Personally Witnessed People Stop Using Mass Rx,
when they switched to cannabis. You'd be surprised how many people are on 10-14 different prescription medications, with little to no life in them. Too tired to do much.

Switching to cannabis usually, after a while, eliminates most if not all the Rx they're on. Yes, big pharma is looking to lose a lot more than $5Billion a year.

A study in 2013 found the very small percentage of the population, in the few legal states in the US at the time, used up to $156M less in prescription drugs paid for by medicare.

That's $156M, just from medicare patients. Imagine what the true figures are and where they'll be in the next 10 years. Lots more states are medical now and a significantly larger number of people are using cannabis.

Want to end the health crisis? Legalizing cannabis completely would go a long way towards this goal.

In the end just follow the money.....sad.