Most patients do not trust the drug companies and will do everything they can to avoid taking “pills”. Over the past 10 years there have been multiple cases of drug companies failing to disclose adverse data in the studies of drugs. Tonight 60 minutes did a piece on GalaxoSmithKline, a major US drug company that knowing distributed medications of inadequate strength or different medications all together to the public. The pleaded guilty to a felony and are continuing to operate today. What happened?? READ ON

As physicians we take an oath that states: “First do no harm.” Unfortunately as doctors we have to many times rely on data that has been produced and evaluated by drug companies that stand to make HUGE profits from the sale of these drugs. A 32 billion dollar per year company, named Pfizer, is just one of many that knowingly distributed a pill that was harmful to patients. It is for this reason that so many patients DO NOT WANT TO TAKE PILLS and rely on a more natural remedy like cannabis.