Why don't we have a cure for cancer yet?

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Possibly why cannabis has been suppressed for so long too... A cheap, easy to grow plant that appears to attack cancer! Well, there's no money in that is there...

@Quizzical I don't know about elsewhere but in the US major industries like the logging and paper industry were behind the ban which is why the completely nonsensical (from a drug policy perspective) ban included hemp. Making paper from hemp and bamboo is much more efficient. Same thing with ethanol being banned under prohibition. It was Standard Oil baking it to kill alternative fuels. Prohibition ended literally the day after the last of the original non petroleum based cars was pulled off the market.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow And people claim there are no such things as conspiracies 🙄

Interesting info, I didn't know those things. Thank you 😊

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow If no profit could be made, do you think we'd have a cure? Or is there a cure already, but it's not being used since it'll come at a loss?

@BeefySenpie Since our current system rewards sociopaths in business and given the behavior of some in the past (jacking the price of epi pens for no other reason then they know they can make people pay it or they could die) I would be inclined to believe it is the latter. Or possibly they didn't even bother "wasting" money trying to research a cure. That is why many of those foundations exist because big pharma simply doesn't care .

@BeefySenpie The person who made me realize how broken the research funding side of this was believe it or not Christopher Reeves. I saw him speak and he was very disillusioned and scathing in his assessment of the state of things. Basically he was putting up his own money because spinal cord research was not profitable enough for anyone else to give a damn.