A Montana Public Radio analyst speculates about Obama's treachery:
The Coming Rescheduling of Marijuana Is A Trojan Horse. An excerpt follows...
In Montana, for example, if marijuana were federally rescheduled as a
schedule III drug, if a business wanted to produce marijuana for
medical use, it would need to be licensed and regulated by the Montana
Board of Pharmacy. The U.S. DEA would set quotas for production. The
Board of Pharmacy could choose to license a single business to provide
the raw marijuana for Montana pharmaceutical companies to use in
developing their patentable, cannabis-based products, if any choose to
develop such products. Patented products are inevitable and necessary
for profits. Genetically modified seeds are inevitable, as well, and are
already the trend in the development of agricultural products.
But equally important as pharmaceutical companies taking control of
the resource in the legal market is that rescheduling also assures a
continuation of a vibrant black market which protects the resources of
law enforcement, private prisons, and court-ordered treatment programs.
A rescheduling of marijuana, in short, would be the end of local
economies and the middle class financially benefiting from the shift in
marijuana’s legal status. Though many marijuana advocates call for the
rescheduling of marijuana, success in this effort would serve primarily
as a shrewd move for creating the illusion of change while creating the
least actual change when it comes to marijuana policy and the
beneficiaries of that policy.
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