Huntingdon, West Virginia is a quaint town with a beautiful college campus and enough hills for some amazing scenery. However, last August, the town experienced a devastating tragedy. The state itself has been known for years as a place of high opioid addiction and overdose, but one day, in a four-hour span, there were 27 […]
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What Will Be The Role Of Big Pharma In Medical Marijuana?
Huntingdon, West Virginia is a quaint town with a beautiful college campus and enough hills for some amazing scenery. However, last August, the town experienced a devastating tragedy. The state itself has been known for years as a place of high opioid addiction and overdose, but one day, in a four-hour span, there were 27 […]
DEA Eases Restrictions on CBD Research to Benefit Big Pharma
There was speculation last week that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration might be on the verge of downgrading the Schedule I classification of the cannabis plant. Unfortunately, the end result proved the implications behind the rumors were somewhat overstated, as the… Read article here: High Times
DEA Allows Cannabis Imports to Facilitate the Big Pharma of Marijuana
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has all but refused to acknowledge lawful cannabis producers as part of legitimate commerce here in the United States, but that has not stopped the agency from working with corporate drug pushers in the importation of cannabis prod… Read article here: High Times
Big Pharma Companies Were The Original Medical Pot Sellers
At the turn of the century, six percent of all manufactured drugs contained cannabis in one form or another, whether in powder, tablets, fluid extracts or tinctures. Some call that period the “Golden Age of Medical Cannabis” as marijuana products flourished wi… Read article here: High Times
The Big Pharma Marijuana Scam of 2015
With efforts to legalize medical marijuana across the United States having been largely successful in recent years, there is speculation that the federal government will soon make a move, possibly in 2015, to reschedule cannabis in an effort to allow a variety of herb-bas… Read article here: High Times
How Big Pharma Is Sandbagging Marijuana
As more Americans express interest in the healing potential of medical marijuana, the boardroom brass of BigPharmahas become noticeably concerned about how these changing opinions might affect their bottom line. High Times
Medical Marijuana More Effective Than Big Pharma for Fibromyalgia
For the estimated five million Americans suffering from Fibromyalgia (FM), a chronic pain condition of unknown etiology, pain, fatigue, and depression are often a way of life. Though the US Food and Drug Administration has approved a small number of drugs to treat symptom… High Times
Big Pharma Blocking Feds From Legalizing Marijuana?
While most of America is still struggling to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes, a handful of large pharmaceutical companies are already generating a substantial amount of revenue from prescription drugs based on cannabis medicine. High Times