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A serious professional, [Laura] Kam [Founder and CEO of Kam Global Strategies, a Jerusalem-based public relations firm] has embarked on a very serious mission to make the State of Israel – where medical cannabis is legal and used therapeutically every day – the world’s center for research and further development of the plant. One thing she knows from the outset is that, for the moment at least, we need not worry about competition in this area from America.
“In the US, cannabis is regulated as a ‘Schedule 1 drug,’ akin to heroin, so there is virtually no research going on with it,” Kam says.
“No institution with ties to the federal government, such as the National Institutes of Health, will do any kind of research on cannabis. Israel has much more liberal cannabis research policies than the US, so investment money has been pouring into Israel for research.
Source: http://www.jpost.com/Metro/On-a-crusade-for-cannabis-456932
(Score: 2, Interesting) by tisI on Sunday June 19 2016, @11:29PM
This is because years ago Dow Chemical saw cannabis as a threat to it's hemp rope business. Throw enough money at congress and now you have it outlawed. More money at propaganda and for eternity the entire country thinks cannabis is the cause for all of societal's ills.
And that my friends is how you herd sheep.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself."
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Monday June 20 2016, @12:45AM
This is because years ago Dow Chemical saw cannabis as a threat to it's hemp rope business.
Um, cannabis is hemp? You may have slightly mis-remembered the stoner mythology.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @02:10AM
Yep, he has it wrong. Hemp was a threat to Hearst's logging and paper mill operations.
(Score: 2) by Ellis D. Tripp on Monday June 20 2016, @02:25AM
And DuPont (not Dow), with their new synthetic fiber called Nylon. Their woodpulp chemicals business surely played a part as well....
"Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you end up with a lot of scum on the top!"--Edward Abbey
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @05:21AM
cotton farmers and the textile industry, which was built around selling overpriced and labor intensive cotton over the much easier to produce (but coarse and lower quality) hemp. Hemp's one major shortfall (and the reason hemp rope is unpopular) is that it wicks moisture towards the center of the strands instead of away from them, like cotton does.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @04:14AM
> You may have slightly mis-remembered the stoner mythology.
Comes with the territory.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday June 20 2016, @03:25AM
Woah! Dude! Those are like...the same thing. Don't toke and post, bra. Now, what were we talking about? Tacos? I want tacos.