Controlling supply and demand is what they're after.

Sorry, I don't want synthetic. Moving on....

Yeah, spice is hands down retarded. First time I heard about it was about 7 years back when a guy was using it to pass a piss test over legal reasons.

I've known people that had horrible experiences with synthetic marijuana like K2. The thing about actual marijuana is that it would be a lifetime achievment to overdose on it. Even if you smoked 20 joints in a row you'd probably either puke, have a panic attack, or just chill. In that respect marijuana is a fairly safe drug, especially compared to other pharmaceuticals. If you were to do the same with something like K2, it's likely you'd end up in the hospital.

Naturally the DEA and pharmaceutical companies will say "we'll regulate the dosage and everyone will be fine!" Except they always seem to "forget" that pharmaceuticals always end up being sold on the streets to be abused, and that curious or suicidal people will overdo their dosage.

All this aside, this drug Syndros (which even sounds nefarious) is being placed on Schedule II, which the article says means the drug has “a high potential for abuse, with use potentially leading to severe psychological or physical dependence. ” Non-synthetic marijuana doesn't cause dependence (in nearly all but those most susceptible to addiction), and yet it's a Schedule I drug.

The article defines a Schedule I drug as having "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse." Disregarding that marijuana does have medical uses, who thought that having no medical use was worse than a risk of dependence?

So this begs the question that most everyone here has been asking: why are synthetic cannabinoids being approved over the real thing? They're equally, if not more likely to be abused; they're less safe than the real thing, and there's more production overhead.

The answer, as always, is money.

There's also the more nefarious possibility: that there could be intent to conflate synthetic marijuana with the real thing in the eyes of the general public, causing panic over the use of actual marijuana.

On one hand they say "schedule 1" no medical value and on the other they say there is medical value and these drugs are proof. Which hand are they lying with?

Yep, suddenly everything's fine now it's patent-able.

Ehh, you can get "real pot" faster than you can cash a check. They can keep their bullshit.

E: Them there words and such.

Why does the government think that a synthetic would be better than the real thing? Instead of just putting a seed in the ground, we get this shit?

Someone needed proof?

" If it ain't broke, don't fix it. "

Fucking money hungry cunts.

This just makes me mad.

Who woulda thunk it. Kill a bunch a people along the way when they put their poison in the mix for a buck. Commies

Look at how completely and utterly not surprised I am.

Between big pharma and the very profitable war on drugs, marajuiana will never be legal on a federal level.