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+====The current WTO patent system is locking in global cannabis monopolies.==== |
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+**Kellner 21 **"Mitigating the Effects of Intellectual Property Colonialism on Budding Cannabis Markets" Hughie Kellner ~~Hughie Kellner came from the small farm town of Uvalde, Texas and received a bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduation from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Hughie will deploy his physics degree while prosecuting patents in the Frankfurt am Main, Germany office of Leydig, Voit, and Mayer. After Hughie's first year at Maurer, he worked for a law firm in Thailand as a Stewart Fellow.~~ Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Vol. 28 ~~#1 (Winter 2021) https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol28/iss1/9/ SM |
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+B. How the Patent Has Become a Tool for Globalization |
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+The trade- |
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+, the inventor could create an economic climate close to a global monopoly. |
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+====Thailand proves – the world is trending towards legalization but big pharma patents lock in cannabis monopolies and crowd out local growth.==== |
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+**Kellner 21 **"Mitigating the Effects of Intellectual Property Colonialism on Budding Cannabis Markets" Hughie Kellner ~~Hughie Kellner came from the small farm town of Uvalde, Texas and received a bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduation from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Hughie will deploy his physics degree while prosecuting patents in the Frankfurt am Main, Germany office of Leydig, Voit, and Mayer. After Hughie's first year at Maurer, he worked for a law firm in Thailand as a Stewart Fellow.~~ Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Vol. 28 ~~#1 (Winter 2021) https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol28/iss1/9/ SM |
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+The reason the Thai public was so concerned over the cannabis patents filed by Otsuka |
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+, as a resolution to the Canadian recusal from the UN Single Convention. |
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+====Big pharma leverages cannabis patents to block out competition and secure monopoly – decks medical marijuana access==== |
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+**Barnett 20 **Hailey A. Barnett ~~J.D. candidate 2020, Tulane University Law School; B.A. 2017, Communication, cum laude, Texas AandM University.~~, "High Risk, High Reward: Patent Law's Effects on the Medical Marijuana Industry," Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 22 (2020): 125-164 https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/tuljtip22anddiv=8andid=andpage= SM |
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+B. Cannabis Patents and Pharmaceutical Companies |
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+Patent protection is a key component of |
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+of wealthy, powerful entities to ensure smaller entities are not marginalized.219 |
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+====Monopolies kill cannabis biodiversity which throttles medical marijuana advances and industry innovation.==== |
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+**Barnett 20 **Hailey A. Barnett ~~J.D. candidate 2020, Tulane University Law School; B.A. 2017, Communication, cum laude, Texas AandM University.~~, "High Risk, High Reward: Patent Law's Effects on the Medical Marijuana Industry," Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 22 (2020): 125-164 https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/tuljtip22anddiv=8andid=andpage= SM |
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+A. Biodiversity Implications for Cannabis Strain Patents |
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+Biodiversity, or biological diversity, |
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+effects on that country's biodiversity and its rights to that biodiversity.2 50 |
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+====Scenario 1 is Biodiversity==== |
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+====Lack of cannabis biodiversity is vulnerable to wipeout which decks innovation, and wrecks ag nutrition and biodiversity writ large==== |
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+Hunt 20 ~~Dale, PhD Biology from UC San Diego, JD in Intellectual Property Law from UC Berkeley, Founder and Senior Attorney at Planet and Planet Law Firm, Founder and CEO at Breeder's Best~~ "Biodiversity in Commercial Cannabis: Why It Matters," Cannabis Business Times, August 7, 2020, https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/article/biodiversity-in-commercial-cannabis-why-it-matters/ ~~brackets in original~~ TG |
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+The limitation of a monoculture is that it's a total commitment to one strategy. |
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+nutrients reduces insect herbivore performance" published in the journal Nature in 2016. |
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+====Biodiversity loss causes extinction – also multiplies threats of escalation==== |
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+Torres 16 ~~Phil Biologist, conservationist, science advocate and educator. 2 years based in Amazon rainforest, now exploring science around the world. "Biodiversity Loss: An Existential Risk Comparable to Climate Change" http://futureoflife.org/2016/05/20/biodiversity-loss/~~ |
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+According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the two greatest existential threats to human |
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+as one of the most significant contemporary risks to human prosperity and survival. |
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+====Monopolies kill market growth and disincentivize innovation.==== |
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+**Gunelius 20 **"How Big Business, Monopolies and Stacked Licenses Impact the Marijuana Industry," February 7, 2020, Originally published 3/4/17, Susan Gunelius is President and CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc. https://www.cannabiz.media/blog/how-big-business-monopolies-and-stacked-licenses-impact-the-marijuana-industry SM |
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+However, the continued growth and development of big businesses with deep pockets in the |
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+over the long-term as well as ongoing innovation and product accessibility. |
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+====Scenario 2 is Food Security==== |
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+====Cannabis innovation solves rising food insecurity – key to new techniques and future sustainability==== |
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+SS 19 ~~Soft Secrets is a global cannabis news and information platform. Supported by its own network of reporters and editors at home and abroad. Soft Secrets is the leading source for cannabis cultivation, legalization, culture and entertainment.~~ "The Urban Farm Revolution," Soft Secrets, March 4, 2019, https://softsecrets.com/en-US/article/urban-farm-revolution TG |
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+As the world's population races in ever greater numbers to our sprawling and polluted metropolises |
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+they show several signs of being truly viable options for a sustainable future. |
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+====Now is key – COVID spiked global food insecurity and political instability==== |
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+Eiran et al 21 ~~Ehud Eiran, senior lecturer at University of Haifa, visiting scholar in political science at Stanford University, former assistant foreign policy advisor to Israeli prime minister. Michaela Elias, MA in earth systems from Stanford University. Aron M Troen, associate professor of nutrition science and policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.~~ "No bread, No Peace." Foreign Policy, January 23, 2021, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/23/food-hunger-national-security-issue-instability/ TG |
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+We know that rising food insecurity can exacerbate social and political instability. |
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+Another |
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+only to its affiliates, while also preventing the opposition from distributing food. |
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+====Food insecurity leads to nuclear war – extinction ==== |
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+Cribb 19 ~~Julian Cribb, distinguished science writer with more than thirty awards for journalism, October 3, 2019. "Food or War." Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/food-or-war/2D6F728A71C0BFEA0CEC85897066DCAF~~ |
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+Although actual numbers of warheads have continued to fall from its peak of 70, |
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+the preconditions for the use of nuclear weapons, whether limited or unlimited. |
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+====Scenario 3 is Opioids==== |
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+====Medical marijuana is key to resolving opioid pain reliever prescriptions – biggest internal link to addiction and overuse==== |
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+Blake 20 ~~Dwight K Blake, Founder of American Marijuana, 15 years of experience in mental health counseling and addiction treatment.~~ "Medical marijuana reduces opioid prescribing rate," American Marijuana, March 24, 2020, https://americanmarijuana.org/medical-marijuana-solution-to-opioid-epidemic/ ~~note: charts/images omitted~~ TG |
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+Medical Marijuana as A Painkiller |
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+Marijuana contains many Cannabinoids including CBD or Cannabidiol and |
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+have shown an average reduction rate of opioid consumption by 5.21. |
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+====Neg studies are bunk – misclassified the existence of medical marijuana in states==== |
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+Sullum 19 ~~Jacob, Cornell University BA in Economics and Psychology, Senior Editor at Reason, writer for WSJ and NYT, spoke on drug policy at International Conference on Drug Policy.~~ "Does Medical Marijuana Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths or Not?" Reason, June 11, 2019, https://reason.com/2019/06/11/does-medical-marijuana-reduce-opioid-related-deaths-or-not/ TG |
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+When Shover et al. limited their analysis to states that only allow medical use |
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+easily muddy the picture of what happens when medical marijuana is legally available. |
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+====The opioid crisis risks massively destructive terrorism – synthetic opioids can be weaponized and spread==== |
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+Morell 17 (Michael Morell, the former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is one of our nation's leading national security professionals, with extensive experience in intelligence and foreign policy. During his 33-year career at CIA, Michael served as Deputy Director for over three years, served twice as Acting Director, served for two years as the Director of Intelligence, the Agency's top analyst, and for two years as Executive Director, the CIA's top administrator.)("The Opioid Crisis Becomes a National Security Threat", July 26, 2017, https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/opioid-crisis-becomes-national-security-threat) |
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+On October 23, 2002, dozens of armed Chechen terrorists seized a Moscow theater |
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+– particularly when it is so easy to see what might be coming. |
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+====Developments and attacks are coming now – spurs inter-state wars AND non-state actors which ensure escalation – taboo eroded, empirics prove, tech and motive are here ==== |
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+Henry de Quetteville et al 18. Special Correspondent @Telegraph, Technology. Former foreign correspondent in France, the Balkans and the Middle East., citing James Giordano, professor of neurology, chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program, and co-director of the O'Neill-Pellegrino Program in Brain Science and Global Health Law and Policy at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is an member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's panel on neuroethics, legal, and social issues, and serves as a senior science advisory fellow to the Joint Staff at the Pentagon. His latest book is Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense: Practical Considerations, Neuroethical Concerns (CRC Press), citing Gavin Williamson, UK Secretary of Defense, citing Aimen Dean, also known as Ramzi is a Bahrainian man who was a founding member of al-Qaeda. In 1998, he joined the Secret Intelligence Service and became an MI6 spy, citing Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a chemical weapons expert and chief operating officer of SecureBio Limited. He was formerly a British Army officer for 23 years and commanding officer of the UK's CBRN Regiment and NATO's Rapid Reaction CBRN Battalion, August 3, 2018, "The rise of biological and chemical weapons After Salisbury, how ready is the UK?", https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/rise-of-biological-chemical-weapons/. Rez |
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+With nerve agents having been deployed in Syria, Malaysia and Salisbury, the 100 |
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+total? $26.2 billion per 100,000 persons exposed. |
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+====Nuke war causes extinction – Ice Age, famines, and war won't stay limited==== |
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+Edwards 17 ~~Paul N. Edwards, CISAC's William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Being interviewed by EarthSky. How nuclear war would affect Earth's climate. September 8, 2017. earthsky.org/human-world/how-nuclear-war-would-affect-earths-climate~~ Note, we are only reading parts of the interview that are directly from Paul Edwards — MMG |
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+In the nuclear conversation, what are we not talking about that we should be |
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+two nuclear powers would stay limited to these smaller, less destructive bombs. |
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+====Chemical WMDs cause extinction – one incident is enough==== |
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+Gander 18, Kashmira. Citing the Global Catastrophic Risks Foundation's Global Challenges Annual Report, edited by Martin Rees, UK Astronomer Royal, and Co-founder, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and whose section on chemical warfare was reviewed by Angela Kane, Senior Fellow at the Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris, and former High Representative for Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations. 10-31-2018. "Experts reveal the nine most likely ways the world will end." Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/how-will-world-end-experts-reveal-9-most-likely-ways-humans-will-be-wiped-out-1194616. Rez. |
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+Humanity being annihilated by chemical weapons or the molten lava of a supervolcano may sound |
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+it could "cause a pandemic of unprecedented proportions," the report stated. |
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+===Solvency=== |
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+====Plan – the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to delay patent enforcement for cannabis.==== |
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+**Kellner 21 **"Mitigating the Effects of Intellectual Property Colonialism on Budding Cannabis Markets" Hughie Kellner ~~Hughie Kellner came from the small farm town of Uvalde, Texas and received a bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduation from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Hughie will deploy his physics degree while prosecuting patents in the Frankfurt am Main, Germany office of Leydig, Voit, and Mayer. After Hughie's first year at Maurer, he worked for a law firm in Thailand as a Stewart Fellow.~~ Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Vol. 28 ~~#1 (Winter 2021) https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol28/iss1/9/ SM |
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+Includes enforcement and duration |
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+A simple solution to the problem is this: if |
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+be achieved through controlling varying means and portions of the patent application process. |