Hypocrisy of Humungous Magnitude?

[Dragonfan]

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507.html

 

US Patent 6630507 - Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants

Application: filed on 2/02/2001

US Patent Issued on October 7, 2003

Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services

 

Abstract

Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the

treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed

class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H, CH3, and COCH3.

 

Now the article goes on to describe the rest of the Patent in detail, and my point? How hypocritical is the US federal government sitting on a patent for 'medical marijuana' yet throwing those who take the opportunity to treat their disease with their drug of choice into prison? Makes me want to scream . . .

 

The link for the Patent was published on Norml with the comment . . . "And there you have it. The same federal government that steadfastly denies pot has any medicinal value also holds the medical patents on the plant’s various therapeutic cannabinoids."

 

http://blog.norml.org/2008/07/03/us-govern...ts-medical-pot/

 

Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director

NORML

3rd July 2008

© 2008 NORML

 

[and I probably posted this incorrectly, so apologies for same . . .]

[MCHEVA]

why would they patent that anyway? I mean whats the point of patenting something that occurs naturally?

[s4l]

for the love of money

[mull]

Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention.

 

 

Toxicity, ok thats a new one.. is that a new patent language for avoiding the 'high'

 

 

Don't see cannabis mentioned once there. Nice piece of sly work there US DHHS, you own the icing sugar on the cake you've banned from everyone!

[freddie]

How hypocritical is the US federal government sitting on a patent for 'medical marijuana' yet throwing those who take the opportunity to treat their disease with their drug of choice into prison? Makes me want to scream

 

Totally agree. Breathtaking hypcorisy....

[samboo]

Totally agree. Breathtaking hypcorisy....