Pharmaceutical companies fight marijuana legalization to keep patients addicted to opioid painkillers

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is constantly finding ways to bypass state laws that sanction medical marijuana and harass providers who are operating under those state laws. They are overt and obvious with their application of federal laws.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which operates under the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), still classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, a rating that classifies it medicinally useless, dangerous, and addictive. Strangely, the pharmaceutical drugs that are the most dangerous and addictive are Big Pharma's expensive and toxic opiate based pain killers.

Big Pharma produced opiates have official medical merit as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pain killers. Most of them are Schedule II and III on the DEA list. But, if doctor prescribed, they're okay. Fake prescriptions or multiple prescriptions are methods of choice used by addicts to obtain oxycodone pain killers such as OxyContin.

One such addict...

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