A company that spent $500,000 trying to keep pot illegal just got DEA approval for synthetic MJ

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/24/a-pharma-company-that-spent-500000-trying-to-keep-pot-illegal-just-got-dea-approval-for-synthetic-marijuana/?utm_term=.34b9f00fb531

Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company that was one of the chief financial backers of the opposition to marijuana legalization in Arizona last year, received preliminary approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration this week for Syndros, a synthetic marijuana drug.

Insys gave $500,000 last summer to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, the group opposing marijuana legalization in Arizona. The donation amounted to roughly 10 percent of all money raised by the group in an ultimately successful campaign against legalization. Insys was the only pharmaceutical company known to be giving money to oppose legalization last year, according to a Washington Post analysis of campaign finance records.

Syndros is a synthetic formulation of THC, the main psychoactive component in the cannabis plant. It was approved by the FDA last summer to treat nausea, vomiting and weight loss in cancer and AIDS patients. The DEA approval places Syndros and its generic formulations in Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act, indicating a “high potential for abuse.” Other Schedule II drugs include cocaine, morphine and many prescription painkillers.

[Achilleaze]

1. America wants the good turtle soup, not merely the mock

and the real healthy herb grown in nature, not the corporate industrial synthetic crapola formulation.

[Doreen]

2. Oh good, now they are going to put dangerous chemicals into one of the

more pure forms of medicine that we have. Every drug we take has at least some of what the natural stuff was but they include a shit load of chemicals to make it so called better and make it ten times more dangerous. Great, Chemical cannabis.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Gee, I wonder why they were against legalization?

You don't suppose they had any ulterior motives, do you?