WTF?: The Government Patented Weed- While Telling Everyone Weed Had No Medical Use

You ever hear something so ridiculous that your brain just stops for a second?

Here’s one:

The United States government had a patent on cannabinoids for their potential antioxidant and neuroprotective uses.

Yes. The same federal government that spent decades treating cannabis like public enemy number one also held a patent connected to the medical potential of cannabinoids.

WTF?

The patent was called “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants.” In normal human words, that means cannabinoids were being discussed for their possible ability to protect the brain and body from certain kinds of damage.

Meanwhile, cannabis was still being treated federally like it had no accepted medical use.

So let’s get this straight:

Government: “Cannabis has no medical value.”

Also government: “Actually, let’s patent some medical uses for cannabinoids.”

That’s not a conspiracy theory. That’s paperwork.

And honestly, that might be the most weed thing ever. The plant got raided, demonized, criminalized, legalized, taxed, branded, and somehow patented along the way.

The real WTF isn’t that cannabis has useful compounds. People have known that forever.

The WTF is how long the official story refused to catch up with reality.

So next time somebody says cannabis history is boring, just tell them:

“Bro, the government patented weed while arresting people for weed.”

That should be enough.