Lone WolfB said:
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I think knowledge of many native medicines have been lost because many of our own people have become conditioned to think of these medicine plants as weeds.
Official studies of medicinal properties of these "weeds" will serve to give validity to much needed medicines. Have no doubts that pharmaceutical companies have long been studying the healing properties of plants but not because they want to market the plants.
According to patent laws no one person or entity can exclusively own and have patents on wild plants. Which is why their interest is merely in creating sythetic duplicates of the compounds which they could use in medicines that they exclusively own.
Almost all pharmaceuticals are sythesized from natural plants. The sythetic versions though almost always have side effects but it does not stop them from selling it.
I am wondering about synthetics. How are they made? Are they mostly oil? How are things made to taste like the real thing?? Does anyone know the process behind sythetics and, as well, GMOs? How does one "genetically modify" things? Via a microscope?
On this topic, I highly recommend that documentary that came out somewhat recently: "Capitalism, A Love Story". In it Michael Moore (the producer) brings out truths about the consequences to farmers who find their business overtaken by corporate methods. Very insightful, and definitely the best of Moore's films, so far, imo.
As for getting people to believe that these very valuable plants are "weeds", yes, that speaks to me about the realities of the engineering of opinion so prevalent amongst the so-called "well-educated".
But I don't see the intention of the government to merely sell (or conquer), but also to keep their human resources (including their "own" people) in line. And "under wraps" so to speak. But of course, this is old news.
