Reply #18: The problem is that the government, including this current

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presidential administration, is owned by the bankers. And the bankers are owned by the two sides of the drug industry, both the "legal" one and the "underground" one.

When you become aware that 33% of Mexico's economy was related to tourism, 33% to oil, and 33% to drug monies, and then you realize that the cartels send some one of the family up north to buy a bank and launder the money, all the while going to the local Catholic Church, hanging out with the local politicians, and amping up the disinformation campaign against marijuana, then you begin to see how until we get campaign finance reform efforts underway that don't allow for Big Bankers to own our politicans, we will always have our politicians claiming that they think drug use should continue to be illegal.

And Big Pharma needs marijuana to be illegal also. Much work has been done on cannibinoids and their properties, and various cannibinoids do things like shrink tumors, reduce spasms in parapalegics and MS patients, heal Staph taht is resistant to other antibiotics, etc. The Big Pharma people want to patent these cannbinoids and use them for additional profit. Why should the American people be allowed to grow their own, when instead they could be paying big bucks to the Big Pharmaceutical companies, when those companies are so addicted to profit?

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Until taht happens the drugs wil be illegal.