I believe I have already mentioned this Mestemia.....this is a very one sided argument for big pharma as
@Heyo has mentioned. Patents are everything to the drug barons. Studies are not done because (heaven forbid) cheaper natural medicines that actually cure a health issue rather than fool people with symptom control, would be a huge hit to their bottom line.
But those who profit from ill health are found on both sides. Their the motive is greed but people must do what they feel is right. Our own trust in any treatment is a huge factor in whether it ‘works’. Double blind studies would not be needed if that wasn’t true. Science does not understand the placebo effect and tries to eliminate it....but their own experience is that it works for many people. You can’t patent that, so you must dismiss it.
As far as cannabis is concerned, a little research will reveal the ugly side of big pharma’s heavy handed approach in using the law to back up its horrible agenda. In Australia, where medicinal cannabis is now legal as long as it’s through prescription, some are finding that it helps so much more than artificial chemical concoctions and with little or no side effects. But the cost is prohibitive and for us, (like the US) medications are ridiculously expensive and we are locked into the orthodox medical system financially. But if complimentary medicines were at least on offer for people to try for themselves, (equally funded) I know which ones would benefit patients more....and so do they.
The problem is, they can’t patent a plant, so they take a component of a plant and invent a drug with that beneficial component as it’s base, and then they can ask whatever they like for something
they invented. Their research will result in a medicine that will control symptoms but not actually “cure” anything.....that is the business model.....design drugs that will keep customers dependant for life, and ensure their income stream.
The worst cases I heard about with orthodox medicine run amok, was with children with intractable epilepsy. Medicinal cannabis was found to keep many of these children seizure free, for the first time in their lives, when pharma medications were useless and reduced their quality of life even more. When parents were sourcing their own medicinal cannabis supply illegally, (because this harmless medicine was demonised for decades because of the lies told by big pharma) the children, despite obvious success with their tinctures, were taken from their parents as if they were dangerous criminals, and put in hospital and back onto useless pharma drugs. I can only imagine the trauma for both the children and their parents.
Another parent with two daughters suffering with Crohn’s Disease were often close to death with pharma drug treatments. When cannabis was tried, both girls improved dramatically, but the prohibitive cost moved the father to grow his own plants to supply their medicine. Some idiot found out that he was doing that and dobbed him in to the police and he was arrested and his medicinal crop seized.....what a disgusting abuse of power! There was no regard for the fact that his girls were enjoying life for the first time and now had to go back to virtually useless pharma drugs.
All over the world, people are coming to understand how beneficial this God-given medicine is. Those who inferred its “dangerous drug” status are now looking a little stupid and are hypocritically breaking their necks to produce cannabis based medicines to cash in. What a sick joke! But isn’t this typical of the world we live in? Greed and lies drive everything in the business world and we are basically at their mercy, which doesn’t really exist.
In a world of incredible scientific achievements, the treatment for cancer has basically remained unaltered for decades. Chemo-therapy kills more patients than it saves. It is a multi-billion dollar a year cash cow for big pharma who constantly requests money for research that never results in much headway for cancer patients.
Cannabis OTOH has resulted in many cures with patients who were told to go home and get their affairs in order, trying medicinal cannabis as a last resort and finding themselves cancer free and staying that way for many years to come. Only a very small percentage who go down the chemo trail end up surviving, because cannabis, unlike chemo drugs, does not compromise the immune system, but utilises it.
How awful to go through the torture of chemotherapy, to see your bank balance disappearing, and losing your battle anyway....
It’s not a “cure all” and never claims to be....but at least it helps the body to heal itself in many instances with no unwanted side effects.