US Govt Holds Cannabinoid Patent 6,630,507

What a crazy world we live in. The federal “Gov.” has seen fit in their infinite wisdom to continue to throw good money after bad on their hypocritical “WAR” on drugs (primarily funded by marijuana eradication numbers). When in their dark shriveled up little heart they know there are huge medicinal benefits’ to be had. For god’s sake if we stumbled upon this substance today in the Amazon rain forest, society would hail it as a new found “Wonder Drug”…

Does everyone know and understand that the US Government has Patent # 6,630,507 on …. Drum rolls please… CANNABINOIDS!
Thinking to myself when I first noticed this …surely this is just a pile of crap. How could the Federal Government on one hand call cannabis a schedule I (one) narcotic…
“(1) Schedule I.—
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision." [20]
No prescriptions may be written for Schedule I substances.”. And on the other hand, hold a patent to CANNABINOIDS?

Well I was wrong. The Fed’s know no limits in their quest for ultimate deceit and betrayal. And “they” the US Dept. of Health and Human Services were in fact awarded the patent in 2003 based on research done by the National Institute of Health, and was then assigned to the US Dept. of Health and Human Services.

This is nothing overly surprising, right? So just why is this so important? Well, here is a legal document, in the public domain, which contradicts the US Government's specified position with regard to the classification of cannabis as a Schedule I substance having no "currently accepted medical use".

In their own words and conclusions the National Institute of Health states unequivocally that “cannabinoids are useful in the prevention and treatment of a wide variety of diseases including auto-immune disorders, stroke, trauma, Parkinson's, Alzheimer’s and HIV dementia.” The powers that would like to keep their foot on the throat of cannabis are loud and well-funded with big industry money, but they are not impervious to persistent effort.

I hope that in broadcasting this information about our Government held patent on Cannabinoids, as widely as possible and to as many people as possible...it can only help to change the public perception of medical cannabis.

Fox Business News: 4/21/2011 General Cannabis, Inc. CEO Jim Pakulis and Tobin Smith.