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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE
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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (19356)4/15/2008 3:34:00 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 25737
 
"not subject to the laws you're complaining about."

Not quite so....

1) The US's bans stand in America (medical research squashed here).

2) The US (and several foreign allies), are of like mind in this Authoritarian/Puritanical 'Big Government knows what's good for you' policy tilt... so they they act arm-in-arm through several international agencies (the U.N. drug control regime, etc., etc.) to prevent research and stiff-arm all national efforts at decriminalization, where ever they may be proposed. The US mostly leads this posse, and has not exactly been 'shy' at wielding it's financial muscle to get what it wants: a continuation of status-quo Prohibition.

3) As I've pointed out already... natural plants and herbal preparations and such are not patentable per se under most patent law regimes... (thus reducing Big Pharma's potential for weighing in on the politics of the matter.) Unless Big Pharma can land a patent (to protect it's profits) then it is mostly not interested in the health care effects.

4) Also as I've pointed out already: these bureaucratic policy barriers at the international level have begun breaking down little by little. What new research has been done (& some has) has mostly been in Canada, or Australia, or Great Britain where the Puritanical mindset of government is (ever so slowly) receding.
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