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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has once again rejected attempts to reschedule cannabis and allow medical cannabis federally:
The Obama administration has denied a bid by two Democratic governors to reconsider how it treats marijuana under federal drug control laws, keeping the drug for now, at least, in the most restrictive category for U.S. law enforcement purposes. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Chuck Rosenberg says the decision is rooted in science. Rosenberg gave "enormous weight" to conclusions by the Food and Drug Administration that marijuana has "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States," and by some measures, it remains highly vulnerable to abuse as the most commonly used illicit drug across the nation.
"This decision isn't based on danger. This decision is based on whether marijuana, as determined by the FDA, is a safe and effective medicine," he said, "and it's not." Marijuana is considered a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, alongside heroin and LSD, while other, highly addictive substances including oxycodone and methamphetamine are regulated differently under Schedule II of the law. But marijuana's designation has nothing to do with danger, Rosenberg said.
The Post article notes:
In the words of a 2015 Brookings Institution report, a move to Schedule II "would signal to the medical community that [the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health] are ready to take medical marijuana research seriously, and help overcome a government-sponsored chilling effect on research that manifests in direct and indirect ways."
However, the DEA will expand the number of locations federally licensed to grow cannabis for research from the current total of... 1: the University of Mississippi.
Related: Compassionate Investigational New Drug program
(Score: 3, Insightful) by rts008 on Friday August 12 2016, @02:44PM
It started with Anslinger's 'war' on Mexicans and African-Americans, and Nixon hit the turbo button (as part of the GOP "Southern Strategy") with his 'War on Drugs' to try to discourage minorities and 'hippies' from participating in politics, as they were seemingly voting Democrat mostly.
Since then, it's been nothing fact-based, but only FUD about marijuana since the early 1970's.
Rosenberg can try to make the claim that it's based on 'political science'(and economics of 'for profit' incarceration and court systems) , but it is NOT based on any STEM-based science I'm aware of.
His only accurate statement was:
Everything else he said on the subject is known BS.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Friday August 12 2016, @03:06PM
and Nixon hit the turbo button (as part of the GOP "Southern Strategy") with his 'War on Drugs' to try to discourage minorities and 'hippies' from participating in politics, as they were seemingly voting Democrat mostly.
And on top of that, Nixon's good buddy Henry Kissinger is Hillary's idol.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by rts008 on Friday August 12 2016, @06:06PM
In context of this discussion, so what? What exactly does that opinion have to do with the DEA's decision, or drug laws and policy about marijuana?
Why you were modded insightful instead of offtopic, troll, or flamebait, is troubling, and an abuse of modpoints, IMO.(and according to the SN moderator's guidelines)
Go beat your dead horses somewhere else.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday August 15 2016, @02:41PM
It's entirely relevant, you obvious Hillary shill, because Hillary is most likely to become the next President, so we can expect more of this after her coronation.
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Monday August 15 2016, @03:49PM
LOL! The joke is on you, as I am NOT a Hillary shill. I voted for Bernie.
I do not like Hillary at all, but I will vote for her to try to prevent Trump from getting in the White House.
(Score: 2) by bootsy on Friday August 12 2016, @03:06PM
I thought the DuPont company vs Henry Ford was also part of the problem. DuPont and the paper mills were worried about paper being made from hemp and Henry Ford wanted to use hemp as part of his car doors.
It's a massively useful material and needs far less water than cotton.
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Friday August 12 2016, @03:07PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @06:50PM
mod that comment way up, that's the crux of this whole show