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Company spends $500k fighting marijuana legalization; DEA approves their synthetic
Posted on 3/25/17 at 9:59 pm
Posted on 3/25/17 at 9:59 pm
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Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company that was one of the chief financial backers of the opposition to marijuana legalization in Arizona last year, received preliminary approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration this week for Syndros, a synthetic marijuana drug.
Insys gave $500,000 last summer to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, the group opposing marijuana legalization in Arizona. The donation amounted to roughly 10 percent of all money raised by the group in an ultimately successful campaign against legalization. Insys was the only pharmaceutical company known to be giving money to oppose legalization last year, according to a Washington Post analysis of campaign finance records.
Syndros is a synthetic formulation of THC, the main psychoactive component in the cannabis plant. It was approved by the FDA last summer to treat nausea, vomiting and weight loss in cancer and AIDS patients. The DEA approval places Syndros and its generic formulations in Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act, indicating a “high potential for abuse.” Other Schedule II drugs include cocaine, morphine and many prescription painkillers.
Whole-plant marijuana remains in Schedule I of the CSA, an even stricter regulatory category that designates a lack of medically accepted use in addition to a high abuse potential.
Insys has been active in marijuana policy for several years. In 2011 it wrote to the DEA to express opposition to loosening restrictions on naturally derived THC, citing “the abuse potential in terms of the need to grow and cultivate substantial crops of marijuana in the United States.”
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Posted on 3/25/17 at 10:02 pm to Joshjrn
Synthetic marijuana. What can go wrong?
Posted on 3/25/17 at 10:03 pm to Joshjrn
frick them, it should be left up to the states who actually want to make more money.
Posted on 3/25/17 at 10:05 pm to Joshjrn
quote:Such bullshite. Especially when you see cancer patients' response to the real thing compared to any of the "synthetics."
Whole-plant marijuana remains in Schedule I of the CSA
Maryjane should be legal in many forms. Especially while alcohol and tobacco are.
Posted on 3/25/17 at 10:06 pm to northshorebamaman
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Synthetic marijuana. What can go wrong?
Posted on 3/25/17 at 10:13 pm to Joshjrn
The DEA should be abolished tomorrow along with ATF and a dozen other alphabet suit agencies
This post was edited on 3/25/17 at 10:56 pm
Posted on 3/25/17 at 11:10 pm to Joshjrn
Congrats to them I guess. But they are fighting on the wrong side of a losing battle.
Posted on 3/25/17 at 11:19 pm to Joshjrn
Marijuana being illegal is such a damn joke.
I know I'm stating the obvious but real marijuana is more cost effective than the synthetic version.
I'm not into smoking pot (not since college) but I don't care who does.
I know I'm stating the obvious but real marijuana is more cost effective than the synthetic version.
I'm not into smoking pot (not since college) but I don't care who does.
Posted on 3/25/17 at 11:41 pm to Joshjrn
I don't blame the pharmaceutical company, they're just operating in the framework that big government allows them to. Progressives, this is why people want smaller government.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 12:00 am to DrunkerThanThou
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I don't blame the pharmaceutical company, they're just operating in the framework that big government allows them to.
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by DrunkerThanThou
Oh, i see why you don't get it.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 12:14 am to DrunkerThanThou
Right, the drug company is just acting in it's own self interest and doesn't give a damn about right or wrong. I hate it, but ultimately the biggest blame is on voters. Too many voters are ambivalent about the issue which allows the special interest groups to have their way.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 12:41 am to Joshjrn
Not flaming or anything like that, but was the approval process for this started under the Obama admin or Trump?
Posted on 3/26/17 at 1:40 am to Joshjrn
The DEA, as an agency, lost all credibility when it recently declared that MJ would remain on schedule 1.
Is there a retard anywhere who actually believes MJ has no medicinal value and is more dangerous than meth?
The DEA is not that stupid. They just pretended to be to pander to nutjob congressmen, which is even worse than really being that stupid.
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration lists marijuana in the most restrictive of five classes that the agency uses to regulate dangerous drugs. Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I substance, which is the ranking reserved for drugs with the greatest potential for abuse and with no medicinal value. Heroin, ecstasy and LSD are listed in that category, too, while cocaine and methamphetamine rank one level lower than marijuana, as Schedule II.
Is there a retard anywhere who actually believes MJ has no medicinal value and is more dangerous than meth?
The DEA is not that stupid. They just pretended to be to pander to nutjob congressmen, which is even worse than really being that stupid.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 1:45 am to Twenty 49
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The DEA, as an agency, lost all credibility when it recently declared that MJ would remain on schedule 1.
Doesn't that decision belong to POTUS?
We all know Trump's feelings about it when he chose Sessions for AG but why didn't Obama do it?
This post was edited on 3/26/17 at 1:57 am
Posted on 3/26/17 at 2:52 am to northshorebamaman
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Synthetic marijuana. What can go wrong?
Its called spice, and the shite kills.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 7:50 am to Joshjrn
I knew it wouldn't be long before big pharma took the controls.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 8:00 am to Sentrius
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Not flaming or anything like that, but was the approval process for this started under the Obama admin or Trump?
I hate to tell you, brah, but it was probably Clinton. It takes a loooonnnnnnggggg (I know, TWSS) time for this process to work itself through.
I used to sue pharmaceutical companies - on the one hand, I get it that it takes a lot of time and money to get a drug or medical device through the process with the FDA. On the other hand, they seem disinterested in making anything other than billion dollar drugs - and they'll do whatever to whomever to get there.
And cutting out cheap, inexpensive alternatives is a big part of their business model.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 8:11 am to Ace Midnight
Republicans that want weed legalized screwed that up when they voted for trump. His attorney general Jeff sessions has already stated that weed is worse than heroin
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