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Originally Posted by pan6467
There's a HUGE reason morphine is legal and medicinal marijuana isn't. It's IMHO, a reason Bush and many who are in the pharmaceuticals pocket wanted the result they got.
That is marijuana can be grown anywhere and doesn't need to be processed or formulated or whatever. In essence it is cheap and big business pharmaceuticals would lose money on the meds this would supplant (glaucoma meds, painkillers, etc). They cannot allow this to happen so I am sure they will lobby heavily against any bill allowing it to happen and we will never see one.
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Allow me to play Devil's Advocate for a moment and ask you this: If medical marijuana can be grown at home and used to replace various other medications in a cheaper and more effective manner, isn't it safe to say that it can substantially effect interstate commerce in the case of Pharmaceutical companies that manufacture their medical supplies out of state? I make not attempt to defend this from an ethical standpoint, but technically speaking, it seems to fall under Congress' jurisdiction.