Someone said: "...it makes perfect sense. If your pharma, and you want to own the industry, and you have FDA in your pocket, it makes every sense in the world." No. If you're pharma you want cannabis to be restricted and research be limited as much as possible. 280E bleed legal companies dry, even MSOs (hence their stock pump at the news of it even being suggested to be removed.. Meanwhile the top cannabis patent holding pharma cos. stocks declined.. must be a ruse by pharma? lol) Research restrictions do not limit pharma, they limit universities and smaller operators. Pharma can and has gone overseas for research and cultivation, but they can synthesize cannabinoids here anyways.... I think people who believe Schedule III gives pharma an advantage have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the CSA, FDA, and DEA works. Here's a resource I invite people to read with an open mind and a mindset to refute facts and points, not sources. Otherwise, you are STILL operating from emotion, not facts or reality. The debate is not about if Schedule III is good, it is about what it WOULD mean and what it would NOT mean -- if accepted by the DEA. This alone seems to go over many people's heads. Again, emotional response - versus reality based.
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1yIf you think that rescheduling cannabis is good for anybody other than big pharma and big cannabis, you are absolutely mistaken sir. there are many small operators such as craft, growers and processors and would be entrepreneurs as well as medical patients who want to grow the plant for their own medical purpose which would be absolutely illegal if cannabis is moved to schedule 3, the only legal way you can possess a schedule. 3. drug is with a doctor's prescription which means anybody caught smoking a joint or anything else having to do with cannabis that does not possess. actual RX from a doctor is going to jail. this is not going to help anybody except solidify corporate cannabises control of the entire supply chain and pharmaceutical companies that will be able to patent and sell novel drugs using cannabis. but everybody else will be excluded from the legal market. this is so self-evident. I can't believe your siding on the wrong part of this issue