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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: 4, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday August 12 2016, @01:11PM
Remember that article yesterday about TSA seizing cash?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @01:20PM
They even admit so themselves
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday August 12 2016, @02:01PM
DEA rather than TSA (although they are also known to steal). I was going to submit them as one article but decided to do them separately instead.
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(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday August 12 2016, @02:52PM
Oops, you're right. My bad.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday August 12 2016, @09:34PM
Yeah its profit...but not like you think, its big pharma profit they are truly worried about. A recent study was published showing the effect on big pharma of medical pot.....40% fewer anti-anxiety meds pushed, 70% less anti- nausea meds pushed and a whopping 1750%! fewer pain pills pushed by your friendly big pharma dealers....err i mean doctors.
And THAT is why they pulled this shit, just as the FDA just shut down pretty much every vape shop in the USA (hope you got a good Chinese supplier!) by making them pay several million a vape device and a couple million a flavor (no more house juices, that alone puts most shops out of business) to get them approved while giving a pass to the shitty ones that catch on fire owned by big tobacco companies because the FDA wants people to go back to smoking, because of the big fat checks they take from big tobacco.
Its almost hilarious, the USSA government has become so corrupted its become bizzaro, "People should take drugs that have all kinds of bad side effects, it am good for business" "People should smoke, lots of nasty cancer causing things in those but they am good for business!"...I swear its getting to the point the fucking Chinese government is a better model to emulate as at least they are honest in their corrupt cronyism.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(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.