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Cannabis products are a pharmaceutical. You're putting drugs in your body, just a different one.
by notch656a 4y ago
Cannabis products are a pharmaceutical. You're putting drugs in your body, just a different one.
- spaetzleesser 4y agoBy that definition everything you eat is a pharmaceutical. Everything you eat has some effect on you.
- Z_Z 4y agoit's true though, everything you can consume has an effect on you not unlike pharmaceuticals. we just classify them differently. and as a corollary, anyone that can make money off of that effect, will
- huetius 4y agoThis is obscurantism. If there’s no difference between marijuana and food, what’s with all the excitement and advocacy? OP’s point seems to be pretty reasonable to me. If marijuana is outcompeting established anodynes it implies they are in the same category.
- staticassertion 4y ago`Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.` You probably aren't getting marijuana from a pharmacy and no pharmaceutical company has a patent on marijuana, which I think both technically and colloquially puts it well outside of the realm of pharmaceuticals.
- cantSpellSober 4y agoExactly, a different one. This article is more about stock prices, linked to a study that concludes cannabis is as a new competitor in drug markets. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0272492 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...