Big Pharma's anti-marijuana stance aims to squash the competition, activists say

[umbertino]

Pharmaceutical company Insys spent $500,000 to block legalization in Arizona. Five months later it won approval for a cannabis-derived medical drug

Sam Levin in San Francisco

Monday 3 April 2017 12.00 BST

People gather in Phoenix, Arizona, for a vote watch party for a legal marijuana initiative that was defeated, with the pharmaceutical company Insys contributing $500,000 to the no campaign.

Photograph: Nancy Wiechec/Reuters

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/big-pharma-marijuana-competition-insys-arizona

[bostonangler]

No surprise there.... They want to sell us their killing compounds.

 

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