IN an article published in The Diplomat magazine, writer Hayato Watanabe says China is poised to dominate the market for legal marijuana, even as its officials continue a savage crackdown on its sale and use in the country.
It wants to market legal marijuana, so its officials are cracking down on illegal marijuana so it could control the market.
Marijuana for medical purposes has been in the Chinese pharmacopeia since ancient times. As a pain reliever, it works faster than sticking needles in your head for headaches.China already owns more than half of the 600 patents on medical marijuana filed with the World Intellectual Property Office. Four American states have legalized marijuana; more are poised to follow.
Marijuana, along with crack and cocaine, can also cure social problems, like an angry population. Sociologists say drugging them is the way to resign a country to a huge gap between the few rich and the many poor. It is also the way to leave a population to foreign occupation, like the British did in China. So a neighboring superpower with a highly developed, marijuana-based medical technology is a huge temptation for a corrupt Philippine president to strike a deal with it to perpetuate himself in power, rob our country blind and, yet, keep everyone docile or, rather, drugged. So be careful whom you vote for in 2016. Cross out people who love money, because the drug trade, legal or illegal, has plenty to offer.