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Explosive: Ben Swann: US government holds patent on marijuana as a medicine, but still officially outlaws it

Apr 20, 2015 by Jon Rappoport

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Everybody knows the US federal government still officially considers marijuana an illegal drug.

But as Ben Swann reports, the government also holds a patent on it as a medicine.
(“Feds Say Cannabis Is Not Medicine While Holding The Patent on Cannabis as Medicine”).

That’s right.

The patent # is 6,630,507 (“Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants”). The holder of the patent is “The US government as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services [a cabinet post under the President].”

Quoting from the patent:

“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention…”

My, my.

So let’s see. A) Claim marijuana is a very useful medicine, but b) reserve the right to arrest people who use it as a treatment.

That makes perfect sense when you’re dealing with government.

It also, of course, makes perfect sense when government partners, aka pharmaceutical companies, are busy developing their, ahem, “highly purified, completely reliable, extensively tested, absolutely safe,” and very profitable versions of marijuana as medicine.

Or when those companies are still clinging to the notion that marijuana can somehow be suppressed, because they realize its medicinal uses will pre-empt many of their best-selling, quite toxic drugs, which cure nothing but instead create new symptoms that “require more drugs.”

(Re marijuana oil [note: there are different types], I have heard several stories of remarkable recoveries from Crohn’s disease and prostate cancer.)

What to look out for: pharmaceutical companies will eventually try to market some version of marijuana as a drug, to be used as “an adjunct” with their own toxic compounds (e.g., chemotherapy). This strategy will sidestep the need to assert that marijuana cures anything, while also profiting from a sale of two drugs instead of one.

Drug companies and their federal partners will warn against the use of home-grown marijuana as medicine, citing lack of purity, consistency, and, of course, the absence of a prescribing physician—who must be in the mix, in order to ensure proper dosing for proper reasons.

In this regard, the FDA will probably insert its ugly face into the scene, to bolster the bottom-line of its main client, Big Pharma.

We could even see the resumption of the old pesticide spraying campaigns to poison marijuana grown outdoors.

We’ll certainly see GMO marijuana straight out of the foul maw of Monsanto, Dow, and Syngenta. Along with grotesque pesticides. (So protect the seeds.)

Holding a patent on marijuana as medicine, and accumulating more such patents, is a federal strategy designed to bring private growers and makers of marijuana oil into court at the government’s whim—on a charge of infringing on the patents’ territory. Add to that: practicing medicine without a license.

But the barn is already open. Wide open.

Long ago, the horses ran into the far distance.

When it comes to medicine, untold numbers of people are already using marijuana oil, because they have developed this odd idea that they are in charge of their own bodies.

If the feds want to go to war over that, they’re going to learn the real meaning of a term cadets blithely study in army colleges: asymmetrical.

Dizzying asymmetry.

The old Health Freedom movement of the early 1990s is developing a new face and identity. It doesn’t need nutritional-supplement companies as allies or funding sources. It doesn’t need anybody.

Just a fast-growing plant.

And a cockeyed, ancient, outmoded notion once called liberty.

Jon Rappoport

[Joe Sustaire]

That is wild!
Thanks for posting this.

[ulli]

Not as wild as it's going to get once big pharma has cornered the market,
and we will see Phizer and Norvartis and others competing amongst each other.

The tricky part is that in the old days people knew medicine as the "bitter" pill,
with benefits arriving only after that bitter experience.....

So here it is about the most gratifying, with the most instant results, and for all parties concerned.
Legalization processes are then dependent on feedback from the public.
And while most people don't seem to care what happens either way you will get these kinds of contradictions.

It all depends on the people....

[Carmody]

One has to consider the possibility that the people in the system, who did the patent work, were working around the blocks in the system, in order to get the information out. They still have to dance the tune so to speak, but they can add in moves and motions that say otherwise.

One reason for getting a patent can be to stop not just infringement of one's ideas, but to prevent someone else or another entity... from blocking a person from their own work and their own discoveries. One can be tied up on court, and lose everything when trying to prove the obvious point (prior work with full public disclosure, etc) that a major corporation has stolen from them.

The gentleman who created the intermittent windshield wiper mechanism was tied up in court for, what, over 25 years, and had to sue all the major car manufacturers. He died before he saw any money from them. His family received some funds, finally... and the lawyers got the rest.

The specific people in the government health system may have gotten the patent in order to highlight the issue, to keep it in the public realm, and out of corporate hands. To appear like a regular set of 'bad guys', but to accidentally trip and spill, in the limelight, in the public view.

That the righteous indignity of people, that the public's attention to this matter when viewing the situation and witnessing the patent, may have been part of what the inventors were trying to achieve. As they may have had all other avenues blocked and/or watched. To think of it as a virus delivery vehicle of freedom and life....done inside of a unified front and world of societal control. To look at all the possibilities, not just the rotten.

Oh what a tangled web we weave.

[Blacklight43]

I was always under the impression that you could not patent something natural. When did they change that?

[Calz]

I don't think anything from the "system" can shock me any more.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uQJ8WrKnLUs

I think this was more "twisted" ... but I digress ...


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Patent applicants are clearly described on the patent as including:

The Government Of The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary, Department Of Health & Human Services, Center For Disease Control.

The patent summary says, "The invention provides the isolated human Ebola (hEbola) viruses denoted as Bundibugyo (EboBun) deposited with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC"; Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America) on November 26, 2007 and accorded an accession number 200706291."

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[Daughter of Time]

I hope I'm not going too off topic here but I have a little story to tell which I learned very recently.

Someone I know has been suffering with severe arthritis for the past ten years and had been taking "metothextrate" which is a cancer drug and although his arthritis got somewhat better, the side effects were quite intolerable.

He asked his doctor about medical marihuana, which she is qualified to legally write a prescription for. She said she would never write a prescription for medical marihuana because "one has to smoke it, and if one has to smoke it, then it will probably kill you." This is a doctor speaking!

So he started smoking street marihuana. His arthritis is about 80% better and he's slowly been going off the metothextrate and is feeling a decade younger than he felt a decade ago.

It will be very interesting to see how these medical marihuana laws pan out. I'm concerned about the outcome!