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Originally Posted by Tien
Cannabis felt more like a culture change. Yesterday it was evil, overnight it's no longer evil.
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the 'change' in cannabis came when corporations accepted they needed to sell it. It is not a lot more complicated than that.
With every 'natural' type remedy, medicine, etc big Pharma and corporations have always tried their best to block them being sold commercially while they try to fabricate Pharma Versions of them.
Natural opoids = bad, but as soon as we fabricate one in the lab = good.
Natural Supplements such as ginseng, aloe, etc = bad and blocked for sale as big Pharma/Corps try to replicate results and get a product to sell, but when they fail to do so, they all launch their mass produced under their own label and suddenly the same supplements prior prevented = good.
Marijuana = bad as big Pharma/Corps again try to replicate the benefits to get a product for sale, but once they realize they cannot, they jump in to sell the very product they lobbied to keep illegal and it = good. The irony being that so many people who 'sold' it prior and got arrested are now legally prevented from selling it in a legal market.
So ya, as soon as big Pharma/Corps stop lobbying the gov't to demonize it and decide they are ready to sell it, that light switch moment of change happens.