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: 2) by frojack on Saturday August 13 2016, @04:16AM
Yeah its profit...but not like you think, its big pharma profit they are truly worried about. A recent study was published
Your line of reasoning went off the rails right there with that word Recent.
The ink has hardly dried on that study, it certainly hasn't been validated, and it COULD NOT have affected any legislation.
Its a nice theory, but the timing is all wrong.
The question we should be asking is why is Enforcement in a position to decide what is and what is not against the law?
Why do the even get a vote?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday August 15 2016, @04:13AM
The study is NOT the point, it is simply to show why its being pushed. if you want to know the WHO is pulling the strings you merely have to look at the three biggest lobbying groups against pot...big pharma, the private prison industry, and the police unions...the three groups that make the most from illegal pot.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.