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Across-the-Desk

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Sun Feb 13, 2022, 11:04 AM Feb 2022

Across the Desk - S5:E5 (The Oklahoma GOP Attack on Medical Marijuana)

This week on Across the Desk, Kit talks about several kooky and outlandish bills designed to kill the medical marijuana industry in the state of Oklahoma. Some increase penalties by 3x the amount... Another that forces anyone wanting a marijuana business to submit a question to be put on the ballot to put it up for a vote, But it can only be put on the ballot during a General Election.. And more ways (R)s are trying to kill that 'free market' that they are always praising about...

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Across the Desk - S5:E5 (The Oklahoma GOP Attack on Medical Marijuana) (Original Post) Across-the-Desk Feb 2022 OP
Big Pharma is behind this! Fritz Walter Feb 2022 #1
Excellent point! Across-the-Desk Feb 2022 #2

Fritz Walter

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1. Big Pharma is behind this!
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 11:59 AM
Feb 2022

And they're not shy about "paying" legislators to squash their competition, the legal medical cannabis industry. These corporate drug-pushers know that a rapidly growing number of patients prefer cannabis over the toxic products they peddle, and see that as a threat. This, from the people that brought us the opioid epidemic!

For the record, I am a legal consumer in Florida. With a growing number of health conditions, I have found the cannabis products to be much more effective with a lot fewer side-effects.

Meanwhile, the state is making a shed-load of money with each visit to a prescribing doctor or a dispensary. The "user" card must be renewed every year at a cost of $75, and that requires a follow-up visit to the prescriber, whose fee is also tapped by MoRon DeathSantis's DOH.

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