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12. Congress is owned by Big Pharma among other corporate interests. Ergo,
Sun Aug 3, 2014, 03:38 PM
Aug 2014

Big Pharma is pulling the strings. Pharma does not want people getting med mj at lower costs than their expensive drugs already developed for epilepsy, chemo and other chronic illnesses. Pharma certainly doesn't want people growing their own or buying Charlotte's Web from a friend/neighbor, which is likely to happen if med mj drugs are expensive. (This is already happening). Pharma's old drugs are making them billion$ annually and they see mj as a threat.

Congress is just acceding to the demands of their puppetmasters in holding mj hostage. My take: Congress is MAYBE going to put CBD in a different class and legalize it b/c Big Pharma has figured out how to make $$$ off it.

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