Cannabis is considered a narcotic by the U.S. government. Millions of people are in prison around the world for trafficking, selling, etc., but the plant would be perfect for use if researchers could extract its medicinal components.
The U.S. government is well aware that cannabis has therapeutic properties. How could they not? The plant has been used as a medicine for the past 10,000 years. Even in the United States, cannabis has been used medicinally for the past 100 years. For headaches and sleep disorders, for example. The question is: why did they make it illegal?
To summarize, the U.S. government actually has excellent reasons for making the product illegal. If cannabis were made legal today and used for its therapeutic properties, the pharmaceutical industry would immediately lose tens of billions of its profits.
What many people don’t yet realize is that for decades, governments have encouraged major pharmaceutical companies to ignore cannabis and natural therapeutic products, preferring to focus on vaccines, etc.—all those chemicals that are slowly killing us. Cannabis is one of the products they have sought to demonize and criminalize, quite simply.
