Posted on 08/11/2016 8:04:36 AM PDT by Wolfie
The ruling, issued in 1988 by US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Chief Administrative Law Judge Francis Young "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling," determined: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care."
Young continued: "It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record."
Judge Young concluded: "The administrative law judge recommends that the Administrator conclude that the marijuana plant considered as a whole has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, that there is no lack of accepted safety for use of it under medical supervision and that it may lawfully be transferred from Schedule I to Schedule II [of the federal Controlled Substances Act]."
The schedule is so retarded. They declare heroin has no medical value except most of the prescription painkillers are basically heroin. Then they leave cocaine and meth at “some” medical value even though they don’t actually have any medical use (unless you count diet pills). The whole WOD is filled with bizarre self justifications.
So does that mean there will be an indictment against Malia shortly?
Yes, well. Let me know when the DEA does anything to actually help anyone with any disease who is requesting to be included in an experimental or early clinical trials medication to alleviate pain or advance a disease to being cured or in this case, to do anything for people with neurological diseases. I can tell you from my experience wealthy people will and do at this time get these drugs without any problem. It’s just we who are impecunious that continue to beg for relief.
I’m growing a big crop of methamphetamine in the back yard. I wonder if I have enough room to put some crack plants around? Maybe if I put them in flowerpots and placed them out on the window sill...
I swear, all the heroin and cocaine I planted last year didn’t do ANYTHING. I watered them, let them get plenty of sunlight, and NOTHING. $10,000 shot to hell.
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”
I’ll take this quote by pedophile/pot smoker Allen Ginsberg and turn it around on him.
I don’t remember the 60s, ergo I must have lived it .
Marijuana is an awful drug that takes the ambition away from people and does, despite rumors to the contrary, lead to stronger stuff. The other problem I see is it leads, for not a few, to psychosis.
Keep it illegal.
(s) Hey, Dave’s not here maaannn. You gonna eat those chips?(/s)
I believe there is a distinction between marijuana and THC, because THC has been studied widely and used as medicine.
Marinol. does what the potheads claim only more efficient and safer.
But this is ridiculous. Weed just is not that destructive-—far less so than alcohol. Silly to put it on a plane with heroin.
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Did you read the article?
Right-o!
The DEA seizes Tens of Millions of dollars every year which then is distributed to local police departments that rely on it for budget funding.
It’s all part of our cognitive dissonance disfunction gov’t shakedown racket.
States legalize pot, yet the federal gov’t does not.
Good for me, yet not for thee.
BTW: I am admantly anti-drug use, and have NEVER tried it.
RE: “The DEA has precisely one interest at stake: maintaining power, and rescheduling pot won’t do that”
Yes. It shouldn’t be on a “schedule” at all. Is alcohol?
Marinol. does what the potheads claim only more efficient and safer.
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Even though the article doesn’t say so, I’m pretty sure Marinol isn’t a schedule one drug. The real reason I believe marijuana isn’t being reclassified is that research on entire plants for medical purposes is difficult and rarely done.
DEA agents depend on the ‘war on drugs’ for a living, no surprise there.
Pot is a huge money-maker for the DEA. They’ll never willingly relax their control of it. The DEA is one of the most corrupt agencies of the U.S. government, and that’s saying something.
Alcohol has a simple chemical structure, has been researched and is used medicinally. Are you sure you read the article?
Question: Why does the DEA have any latitude in determining the schedules at all? Isn’t that a legislative thing?
Neither am I, but I think it's worse to give legitimacy to the idea that the federal government can illegalize them — simply put, there is nothing in the Constitution that gives the power to declare drugs to be illegal. You could argue about inter-state commerce, but we've already seen how the courts equate interstate and intrastate commerce… even to the point where 'commerce' is not a needed factor.
And, if you want to go w/ precedence: we had to amend the Constitution to allow alcohol prohibition, yet no such amendment exists for other drugs.
Too many government employees getting paid to enforce the stupid laws
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