The Positive News Thread

[Cyanatta]

 
FDA approves first drug comprised of an active ingredient derived from marijuana to treat rare, severe forms of epilepsy
 

That's good. Though the big pharma still want marijuana illegal. Regular marijuana could probably do that, at a fraction of the cost.
They have been known to prevent legal bills from passing and yet do work on it on their own, and get FDA approval for that.

True, there will always be push back from big pharma, but this is definitely a step in the right direction if there's any chance of getting cannabis dropped from schedule I ("drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse") and actually opening the door for legitimate research on cannabis and other psychedelics (i.e. using psilocybin mushrooms to aid smoking cessation or MDMA for treating PTSD).