Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Instead of going after criminals in the government or making an attempt to thwart corruption, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made his mission clear this week—he intends to crucify those who dare to ingest a plant that makes them healthier and happier.
In a statement released by the justice department on Thursday, Jeff Sessions reversed the policy of allowing states to make their own decisions on legalizing cannabis and vowed to dedicate federal tax dollars and resources to enforcing this tyranny.
“It is the mission of the Department of Justice to enforce the laws of the United States, and the previous issuance of guidance undermines the rule of law and the ability of our local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement partners to carry out this mission. Therefore, today’s memo on federal marijuana enforcement simply directs all U.S. Attorneys to use previously established prosecutorial principles that provide them all the necessary tools to disrupt criminal organizations, tackle the growing drug crisis, and thwart violent crime across our country.”
Revealing the sheer hypocrisy and criminality of Sessions’ move—which vowed to uphold the archaic and despotic Controlled Substances Act of 1970 that prohibits the cultivation, distribution, and possession of marijuana—Sessions’ DEA granted a company a monopoly on the sale of the synthetic form of the plant which contains the exact properties of cannabis.
The active ingredient in cannabis, THC, remains classified as a Schedule 1 drug—meaning the government claims it is dangerous, addictive, and has no medical value. Coincidentally, over the Thanksgiving holiday, the DoJ’s Drug Enforcement Administration granted Insys Therapeutics—a rogue pharmaceutical company rife with corruption—a Schedule II classification on their synthetic form of THC, Dronabinol.
Instead of allowing people to use a natural form of a plant that can cure them, Jeff Sessions will use taxpayer dollars to continue cannabis prohibition while his DEA grants a monopoly on the exact same substance—only synthetic—to Insys.
For those who don’t know, Insys has become notorious over the last two years after six former executives and managers were arrested on charges that they engaged in a nationwide scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe a drug containing the opioid fentanyl. Now this same group of dangerous drug peddlers is being given a partial national monopoly on the sale of legal THC, by the group who claims to protect Americans from drugs.
Along with the executives, Michael Baich, the former CEO, was also charged in an indictment filed in federal court. Even the company’s billionaire founder, John Kapoor was arrested in October for his role in the bribery scheme. He was freed on a $1 million bail after pleading not guilty.
The idea that the DEA would provide a company—who was caught bribing doctors to prescribe opioid drugs that have led to one of the largest addiction problems in the history of the world—with a pass to sell their synthetic version of a plant they continue to kidnap, cage, and kill people over, is infuriating, to say the least.
When asked about this overt conflict of interest and unscrupulous handout to Big Pharma, the DEA answered with a typical bureaucratic reply.
As VICE reported, the DEA noted in its announcement that it received public comments from people opposed to making synthetic THC products Schedule II while keeping marijuana Schedule I. The DEA also said: “two commenters expressed concern that pharmaceutical companies are making a profit from approved drugs containing marijuana constituents.”
“The DEA notes that FDA-approved products of oral solutions containing dronabinol [THC] have an approved medical use, whereas marijuana does not have an approved medical use and therefore remains in Schedule I,” the agency said in its response.
There you have it. If you needed any more proof of the US government’s insane corruption you needn’t look any further than the DoJ’s relationship with Insys.
A company whose drug is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths a year, and who has a sinister history of bribing doctors to prescribe this drug, was given a monopoly on the sale of synthetic THC while the federal government promises to kidnap, cage, or kill anyone who tries to compete with them by selling the natural version. And people still have the audacity to call this place the land of the free.
Unfrigginbeliavable!!!
More billshit from the bullshit masters . There hands are so deep in big drug maker axes they don’t know what day it is anymore , get your noses out of big drug pusher azz
I have been to the hell that this “opioid war” has created. For the past 20 years I legally took Oxycontin &Percocet.Then my “caring ins company” United Healthcare would only cover Fentanyl even tho it contained none of the thibaine molecule necessary to alleviate 24/7 intractable bone pain resulting from a 55 foot fall breaking my hip and crushing my pelvis. That Fentanyl is truly the devil.It made me feel nauseous & pain was still ever present.Suicide or Heroin was all my fentanyl brain could process bc life wo the correct pain meds was not even an option.But isn’t it really the same result?both would cause lifelong detrimental effects for my family. So I got angry and began a slow detox (1000x’s worse than Oxycontin wdrawals)w the help of CBD oil & the kind herb and its the ONLY way I’m alive this very moment!!!! I don’t want to take anymore opiates!
We must “come out” to support the responsible adult use of this miracle medicinal plant that God gave ALL men dominion over in Genesis. Sessions,et al sure are mighty arrogant to place themselves above God.
Here’s what I figure–if they don’t have to obey the law, then neither do we. But the thing is, we have to be very very smart about that (in other words, never let a neighbor or even anyone you trust inside your house or wherever you grow the stuff. And pray to God over it–and don’t be throwing Romans 13 in my face either! I stopped falling for that false interpretation years ago!) Smart! Unless of course we are millionaires and can bribe the “magistrates” and “authorities” that throw Romans 13 at us!
And never use opioids! All opioid users do is keep an illegal and immoral war in Afghanistan going for the sake of poppy growth, and, supposedly, the Taliban is now growing it for profit! Right. Let’s support the Taliban and all persecutors of women and Christians.
….and counts his kickbacks on lots of Afgani smack!
I hate to be the one to break it to you but our brave young men&women are not only guarding the poppies in Afghanistan but are now helping to cultivate the opium. I’d rather grow my own medicine in my back yard than trust the Rockefeller Drug Trust ever again. I refuse to let them kill me anymore!
“I hate to be the one to break it to you but our brave young men&women are not only guarding the poppies in Afghanistan but are now helping to cultivate the opium.”
Then put your mind at ease.
Common knowledge on THIS site for years.
“Therefore, today’s memo on federal marijuana enforcement simply directs all U.S. Attorneys to use previously established prosecutorial principles that provide them all the necessary tools to disrupt criminal organizations, tackle the growing drug crisis, and thwart violent crime across our country.”
Not the sharpest tool in the shed, is he.
The one ‘necessary tool’ he conveniently forgot to mention is the lack of numbers needed for the enforcement of this Draconian bullsh#t.
Wait a minute. According to the fantasies told to us by government, big Pharma is all about helping people who are sick with their wonder drugs. To make sure these wonder drugs are safe, the FDA was formed to test the drugs and guarantee us they are safe. But, I see ads on tv every time I watch about law firms suing these benevolent companies because the drugs they sold the people were actually poison. Anyone with more than two brain cells can see the entire big Pharma – big Government complex is a huge scam to slowly kill people while extracting as much mammon as possible before the customer dies.
Sessions is some kind of asshole isn’t he? He’s like that piece of shit cop who hates everybody, only loves conflict and the sound of jail cell doors closing.
The asshole needs to be Harry Reided, bitch slapped silly.
Ahhhhh yes the Federal Death Administration: the supposed “experts” who approved Purdue’s non-addicting Oxycontin in the 1990’s.Now what exactly did Purdue discover to make opiates “safe to take the rest of your life wo addiction or any problems” that erased the previous 4,000+ years of proven dangers of long-term opiate use? FDA is Big Pharma’s tried & true b$tch to achieve the Protocols.
“Insys Therapeutics’ Undervalued Cannabis Pipeline” from 6.14.17 is an article to potential investors regarding their new SYNTHETIC cannabis product which is supposed to help fledgling sales of their Fentanyl sublingual spray,etc. It would be interesting to see Sessions’ mutual fund portfolio