When you have the same people that are trying to repress this marvelous plant(big pharma) placed in positions of power over these very issue the outcome will never change. The problem is the president gets to appoint the heads of the DEA,NIH,FDA,USDA and a lot of other federal agencies. And if you do a few minutes research and look at the biogrophies of the people heading up these agencies you will find that they will never approve any natural products because big pharma can't make any money off of it. Much easier for them to help write the laws that only allow synthetic medicines to be used so that they can patent them and ask wahatever ridiculous price they want for them. My sister was taking an arthirits drug that cost $1200 a month, all paid for by us tax payers because she had a cushy job working for the government. And the drug ended up worthless and very dangerous. Capitalism destroys everything it touches.