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The 15-ounce pound : big pharma's plan to patent pot / Joseph R. Pietri.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pietri, Joseph R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Patent medicines--Law and legislation--United States.
- Patent medicines.
- Marijuana--Therapeutic use--United States.
- Marijuana.
- Marijuana--Law and legislation--United States.
- Pharmaceutical industry--United States.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Marijuana industry--United States.
- Marijuana industry.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Walterville, Oregon : Trine Day LLC, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the United States, cannabis is currently illegal, but this book investigates how big pharmaceutical companies are looking at an end-game of legality-controlled by them. It examines how the Amsterdam scene has been transformed; how home growers have been manipulated into using inferior techniques; and how companies, with help from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and "big pharma," are patenting cannabis strains for control and profit. The leadership of the cannabis industry want to legalize marijuana with taxation and regulation, but the phar
- Contents:
- CoverImage; Title page; copyright page; Om Shiva Shankara; Quote; Origin of the term POT; Acknowledments; Table of Contents; Foreword; When you go into the jungle, don't talk to the monkeys - go directly to Tarzan.; A Road Less Traveled; A Toke of Contention; Smells Like Skunk; Operation Green Merchant; Amsterdam; The Horse's Mouth; What's Going On?; HortaPharm; HortaPharm Article in Dutch Newspaper; GW Pharmaceuticals Press Release; British Newspaper article; From the Journal of Forensic Sciences:; From the TokeSignals:; Sam Sez; Cannabis Cabal; Potter's Pot Thesis
- Biopiracy and The Tale of TurmericGoing Dutch?; A Day in the Life; Time Will Tell; Water Hash; The beat goes on ...; URUGUAY TO TRACK LEGAL MARIJUANA; There's somethin' happenin' here; Documents; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (page [169]-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-937584-15-1
- OCLC:
- 881571283
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