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posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 12 2016, @01:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the legalize-it dept.

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


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  • (Score: 1) by arcz on Friday August 12 2016, @03:28PM

    by arcz (4501) on Friday August 12 2016, @03:28PM (#387057) Journal

    LSD is essentially prohibited because of the danger it poses to society as a whole. It's too easy to poison people with LSD.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 12 2016, @03:31PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday August 12 2016, @03:31PM (#387058) Journal

    plz poison me bby

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Friday August 12 2016, @03:58PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday August 12 2016, @03:58PM (#387066) Journal

    LSD is not poisonous in any fashion. It can only temporarily upset the chemical balance in the brain. It has no physically harmful side effects and leaves no trace of its consumption (after you get a haircut in about 3 months). It is indeed a harmless substance.

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    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday August 12 2016, @06:46PM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 12 2016, @06:46PM (#387120) Journal

      Sorry, even pure LSD is a poison. So is every other drug. Including water...people have died from drinking too much water.

      In all cases it is a matter of dosage. In some cases, e.g. Lead, there is no known safe level...but this doesn't mean that there isn't one, or that it might not even be needed. Look up "Milky White disease" for an example of a previously unsuspected deficiency disease.

      That said, LSD readily hydrolyzes, so it's not a direct social danger the way sugar of lead is.

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  • (Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday August 12 2016, @07:41PM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Friday August 12 2016, @07:41PM (#387145)

    LSD is essentially prohibited because people feel that it is okay to use government to force to violate people's fundamental liberties in the name of safety. This is hardly different from the attitude that says that mass surveillance is okay if it stops terrorists, which is false even if it does increase our security by a substantial amount.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @07:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @07:54PM (#387604)

    LSD is essentially prohibited because of the danger it poses to society as a whole.

    Only if you believe hippies and their "Peace and Love~" ideology is dangerous to society as a whole, which many people do.