Why would a safe medication that helps with many problems including neurapthy be illegal?

Question

This medicine can:

Relieve nausea from IBS, Diabetes, Chemotherapy ...

Relieve neuropathy from many diseases ..

Relieve pain and swelling from glaucoma ...

Has been around and used for 5,000 years and is safe

Answer 1

Any drug if used improperly it could be potentially harmful, even  over the counter remedies that are considered to be "safe". Take acetaminophen, for instance. Overuse can damage the kidneys. The Food and Drug Administration classifies drugs, including  marijuana (which is what I think you are talking about). Marijuana  is mind altering and impairs a person's judgement and reactivity, similar to some narcotic medications that are also illegal to possess (without a prescription). I personally have nothing against marijuana.  I don't use it now, but in my much younger days I was not a stranger to it.  It's all politics. Pharmaceutical companies would lose a small amount of revenue if marijuana were legalized for medical use, and in turn Uncle Sam would lose revenue from the drug companies. It'll never be legalized.

Answer 2

Because it can also be smoked for pleasure, and the alcohol and tobacco lobbies won't allow that.

Answer 3

When you break down all the standard arguments against marijuana, they tend to reveal that something which does the same "bad thing" marijuana (but to a much greater/worse/severe extent) but also has some group that can profit off it tends to be legal.  For instance, give or take every single thing wrong with marijuana, cigarettes do to a FAR worse degree but there's a giant industry supporting it so the powers that be don't actually want to do anything on the subject for the "betterment of mankind."

Or if you want to take it a bit further, if you look at all the arguments in the debate, it just turns into an endless stream of BS.  (if anyone wants to debate specific points I'd be happy to)

So, if Marijuana is harmless and immensely beneficial, why is it illegal and why has such a massive effort been made to keep it that way?

Turns out that the plant is really great for all sorts of processes, and it threatened a lot of industries (including the petrochemical, tree farming, cotton, and certain pharmaceuticals), since it essentially did the same thing they did much better and cheaper.  As such, various groups banded together to make a massive propaganda campaign making the plant (including all the non THC versions) out to be the scourge of mankind, and by outlawing it succeeded it protecting their industry and profits.

Truthfully, as it stands now were the plant legal to cultivate (or even the industrial strains which contain no THC...which also are illegal), it would fix many of the environmental and resource problems the country is currently facing.  It's a rather big travesty, but in a capitalist society (especially when the rich control the media!) things like this happen every day.

Answer 4

You should watch the Hooked: Illegal Drugs series on The History Channel.  Really fascinating reasons why certain drugs are illegal.  What I learned from watching the whole series:

Marijuana is illegal because we wanted an excuse to persecute Mexicans

Cocaine is illegal because we wanted an excuse to persecute black laborers (who we were getting hooked on it in the first place)

Opiates are illegal because we wanted an excuse to persecute the Chinese.

Most illegal drugs are just someone abusing their power and trying to find a legal way to arrest groups of people they didn't like.

Answer 5

because the medical industry already makes too much money off keeping people sick and medicating them. any drug that would HONESTLY cure/help is a threat to the cashflow