U.S. Government Licenses Patent for Medical Marijuana

[Ernst]

U.S. Government Licenses Patent for Medical Marijuana'' For those of you who see a Federal Crackdown in one hand now can see granting of a license to only one in the other.
If you are like me this news is making you really angry.

U.S. Government Licenses Patent for Medical Marijuana

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is About to Award

Exclusive Rights to Apply Marijuana as a Medical Therapeutic

Deadline for Comment: Monday, Dec. 19

LOS ANGELES, CA – Dec. 15, 2011--The Union of Medical Marijuana Patients has just discovered that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is about to award an exclusive license to KannaLife Sciences, Inc. of New York to develop medical therapeutics based on the chemistry of cannabis. According to the notice in the Federal Register, public comments will be accepted through Monday, December 19.

"We find it hypocritical and incredible that on the one hand, the U.S. Department of Justice is persecuting medical cannabis patient associations, asserting that the federal government regards marijuana as having absolutely no medical value, despite overwhelming clinical evidence," said Union director James Shaw. "On the other hand, the Department of Health and Human Services is planning to grant patent rights with possible worldwide application to develop medicines based on cannabis."

While the Union applauds the U.S. government's efforts into researching the medical value of cannabis, Shaw said, "they should have affirmatively rescheduled cannabis when they discovered it had medical efficacy and, of course, it makes no sense for the government to provide U.S. Patent 6,630,507, which the government owns, to a single company with exclusive rights." He urged medical cannabis patient associations and patients using marijuana for medical reasons to protest this giveaway to one pharmaceutical firm.

Comments need to be submitted in writing by next Monday to Betty B. Tong, Ph.D., Senior Licensing and Patenting Manager, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive Boulevard, Suite 325, Rockville MD 20852-3804, fax (301) 402-0220, or [email protected].

More information on this issue can be found at www.Unionmmp.org.



Scott Smith
The Union of Medical Marijuana Patients
Los Angeles, CA
310-254-4051

 

[bigbillyrocka]

Damn, that would be one helluva monopoly owing exclusive rights to that patent. Either way we won't be allowed to grow if they get their way. Once they start manufacturing it we won't be allowed to do so. May as well keep it illegal if it went that route.

 

[Ernst]

This dual status is now defacto Federal Policy. This has to be the absolute slap in our faces.

 

[nathenking]

It feels like we are never gonna get a fair shot at MMJ. Corporations want all the profits and have the pull to push legislators in the favor. That is why I did not support prop 19. Prop 19 was written to help these bigger "corporations" control all of the growing and selling pushing out all of us small guys and taking away some peoples lively hoods, just say they can become uber rich off of our sacred herb. its sad to me

 

[Ernst]

Yeah Nat,


And our people will not organize.


I have thousands of posts posted on this topic spread out on dozens of sites and it is always the same.

Now that there is a semi-industry no one seems interested in freedom.

We have been divided and so we shall be conquered. The very "Weed" we have sheltered all these years will become a product and we will have to pay for it forever when it grows in the soil under the sun for free.

It is a sign of a greater sickness of society. Banking.

 

[Ernst]

Damn, that would be one helluva monopoly owing exclusive rights to that patent. Either way we won't be allowed to grow if they get their way. Once they start manufacturing it we won't be allowed to do so. May as well keep it illegal if it went that route.

I agree that "we the people" own this plant. " We the people" have paid the price and continue to do so, so yes we own this plant no mater what our law makers get around to.

 

[Flo Grow]

I eventually see them doing what they did to tobacco !
The Federal law is ANYONE can grow on their land but cannot sell to the public or commercially.
This obviously benefits Big Tobacco.
The same could happen to MJ.
In all honesty, that would be plenty for me !
It would be legal...anyone could grow for themselves....and patients can still have their meds.

 

[SketchyGrower]

My head wants to explode... from the thinking of how many people's lives have been and will continue to be left utterly distroyed by this crusade of terror against non-violent cannabis users. Probably because it's much safer to bust a pot head then it is to bust a meth/crack head.

Until someone with nothing to loose, starts actually harming people in power and a all out modern day civil war breaks out....nothing will ever change. we the people of medical states are making money/not having to pay into the systems to live out our American dream and it's pissing them off.... Or the federal government is just a bunch of sadists.

 

[SketchyGrower]

I eventually see them doing what they did to tobacco !
The Federal law is ANYONE can grow on their land but cannot sell to the public or commercially.
This obviously benefits Big Tobacco.
The same could happen to MJ.
In all honesty, that would be plenty for me !
It would be legal...anyone could grow for themselves....and patients can still have their meds.

If in the end I can grow my own..... Then that's all I would ever need..LOL! Just hope they dont have to be government approved and issued seeds/strains