Unfortunately handing pot to big pharma means adding legitimacy to it as an actual medicine for society as a whole. Your neighborhood pot grower isn’t held to safety standards, double blinded peer review test on actual efficacy while minimizing potential biases, or forced to print out lab results showing vauable information like terps and thc level.

As pot smokers we get defensive and circle jerky about our precious plant medicine that can be grown anywhere, and roll our eyes at how its been treated.

Its important to take a step back and realize theres a difference in standards between the neighborhood dealer going “oh yeah its alternative natural herbal medicine that cures any disease and just makes me feel good maaan IDK how it works but I heard if you have bad prostate cancer you can shove rick simpsons oil up your ass as a supplementary and the stage 4 clears right up through the power of Jahs blessing bro.”

and " we just released a big peer review study spanning hundreds of participants with riggerous analysis. Pot works for these diseases including helping to suppress pancreatic cancer in many cases, we have done the research and the consistent results back it up. Your national health and safety administrations will receive recommendations to update their guidelines."

Having medical colleges with P.H.D graduates doing extensively studies, writing research papers to be published in journals, really having the science nerds pick at the interaction between chemistry and neuroscience to create valid enough theories and frameworks for effective diagnosis to combat serious medical problems. These are things that aren’t happening by just throwing seeds in grounds and having potheads smoke or ea their own flower.

Having doctors confidently be able to prescribe it as a medicine in a pharmacy really helps towards social acceptance for older conservative people taught it was the devils lettuce as dangerous as heroine.

My parents and I had a lot of static during my teenage years because they REALLY hated pot. That started to change when

• 1. It started to be legally buyable over the counter
• 2 they got really old and in constant pain to the point traditional meds like aparin started failing to do the trick. Suddenly they were much more open to the idea of trying CBD and even a minute amount of the devils chemical THC.

Handing it to pharma is a big first step, one its deemed an actual medicine you can talk about recreation and comparing it to alcohol or cigarettes with more bite behind your arguments.