RE:These guys cant seem to get out of their own waymdjbrown...it's not that. Think carefully. Pharmaceutical companies that adopt more effective, as an example, cannabinoids as cancer killers, do so at the expense of the old regime pharma's that develop synthetic molecules with a list of side effects longer than my arm but to the point, on one side are the potential winners and on the other side the potential losers that do not want to adopt to new ways and methods and these former U.S. Attorneys is the same thing as former boxer George Foremen being on a televison ad as a spokes person for insurance covering all your appliances. They are fully paid talking heads by the side of the pharma industry realizing what they will lose when cannabinoid pharmaceuticals are commercialized.
In summary, your post brings forth the real fear of cannabinoids in pharmaceutical drugs and their effectiveness.
Follow the money, follow the greed, follow what's at stake for the old pharma players that don't want change coming forth.
No different than the old British regime wanting to accept the facts that a civilization 1000's of years older than the British once existed in the Amazon rain forest. Or those of Newtonian mechanics fighting Einstein's claim of relativity and new understanding of their reality and this went on until Eddington used a Solar eclipse, observed from Africa and photographed and the plates when laid atop of each other showed the curvature of space time by the Sun, proving Einstein was right.
A little history to your post of the battles against change.