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<blockquote data-quote="Tiger Bass" data-source="post: 2841233" data-attributes="member: 570571">Think about it economically, even if marijuana becomes legal to use as long as its prescribed by a doctor, the more people that they hand it out to, the better.First of all, think about prescription drugs, medicare, medicade, etc. Right now, prescription drugs are costing more than they ever ever have because of people buying their Rx drugs from other countries and lowered cost to the needy and elderly. This decreased cost to these selected groups of people creates an increase of demand overall and thus a price increase to those who don&#039;t fall into any catergories of reduced cost drugs. The price goes up so much because the companies that produce these Rx drugs only have 7 years before their patent runs out on their SINGLE pill that cost $600 MILLION to make.So how do you drive these prices down? One extremely effective method is to sell other stuff to make up for any loss of profits you obtain elsewhere. Since these major drug companies don&#039;t need a patent for something as natural as Marijuana, they THEORETICALLY would be able to recoup any profit lost from selling Rx Drugs and would be able to keep the price on them down for the demographic of people that aren&#039;t 65 or older or not Poor...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tiger Bass, post: 2841233, member: 570571"] Think about it economically, even if marijuana becomes legal to use as long as its prescribed by a doctor, the more people that they hand it out to, the better. First of all, think about prescription drugs, medicare, medicade, etc. Right now, prescription drugs are costing more than they ever ever have because of people buying their Rx drugs from other countries and lowered cost to the needy and elderly. This decreased cost to these selected groups of people creates an increase of demand overall and thus a price increase to those who don't fall into any catergories of reduced cost drugs. The price goes up so much because the companies that produce these Rx drugs only have 7 years before their patent runs out on their SINGLE pill that cost $600 MILLION to make. So how do you drive these prices down? One extremely effective method is to sell other stuff to make up for any loss of profits you obtain elsewhere. Since these major drug companies don't need a patent for something as natural as Marijuana, they THEORETICALLY would be able to recoup any profit lost from selling Rx Drugs and would be able to keep the price on them down for the demographic of people that aren't 65 or older or not Poor... [/QUOTE]

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