Re:Germany just legalized recreational marijuana
by papichulo2023 on Friday March 22, 2024 @08:23AM
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I dont think big pharma would touch it, same reason cc's dont touch porn.
Re:Germany just legalized recreational marijuana
by iknowbettah on Friday March 22, 2024 @08:25AM
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Big pharma sells weed in pharmacies, here in germany, right now.
Re:Germany just legalized recreational marijuana
by gryzzly on Friday March 22, 2024 @08:27AM
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"Big pharma is recognising medicinal marijuana's potential, with the global medicinal cannabis market estimated to reach nearly $24 billion". I think there are many countries where it is already touching it.
Re:Germany just legalized recreational marijuana
by chownie on Friday March 22, 2024 @08:28AM
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They almost certainly would. There's plenty of scummy ways to do business, my guess is they'd produce blister packs of gel capsules filled with THC oil at 480% markup and then fight tooth and nail to recriminalise all other methods of intake.
Re:Germany just legalized recreational marijuana
by aodonnell2536 on Friday March 22, 2024 @08:54AM
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In a sense this already happened nearly 40 years ago, with a drug branded as ‘Marinol’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dronabinol
Re:Germany just legalized recreational marijuana
by lightedman on Friday March 22, 2024 @09:08AM
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Big pharma already sells synthetic cannabinoids and direct delta-9 THC analogues and have for a couple decades, almost.
I think self-growing is an excellent way of obtaining it. Social clubs to distribute is also great, let’s see just how much bureaucracy will be involved.
The fact it’s not a commercial legalisation is excellent – it means there are no agents with extreme financial interest hurrying to make a big buck from promoting it in dishonest ways, making it ubituqios, push it on kids etc. etc. etc.