The War On Botanical Drugs
The Rockefeller and Farben cartels are the main forces behind - and main benefactors of - the anti-cannabis laws. By helping to make cannabis illegal back in 1937 - using Rockefeller's employee FDR - and the help of their buddies the DuPonts and the Mellons, (248) they eliminated their natural competition.
Big drug companies began by selling stimulants - like Merck's cocaine, (249) and analgesics - like Bayer's Methadone and Heroin. (250) As they became powerful enough to create synthetics, they used their power and influence to outlaw the natural. Soon, they had a medicine monopoly.
Cannabis is not only a stimulant, relaxant and analgesic, but it is a safe and effective euphoric, anti-migraine, anti-headache, pro-focus, anti-nauseant, appetite stimulant, immune boosting, muscle-relaxant, anti-spasmodic, anti-inflammation, sleep-inducing, intra-ocular-pressure reducing, anti-convulsant, anti-seizure, anti-stroke and expectorating medicine. (251) Taking advantage of the "hole" in the market created by cannabis prohibition, Rockefeller and IG Farben companies make hundreds of billions of dollars selling synthetic cannabis substitutes - the global synthetic drug market is estimated to be over 360 billion dollars. (252)
For certain conditions - not least of which concern nausea and loss of appetite - cannabis is the only medicine that works. Omni magazine reported back in 1982 that, when fully researched, cannabis could replace up to half of all the synthetic drugs currently available. (253) That's 180 billion dollars worth. The other botanicals - when fully researched - could take a healthy chunk out of the rest of the drug market. It's only ignorance that prevents the "invisible hand of the marketplace" from operating properly and putting all these snakes & oil-salesmen out of business.