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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @02:06PM
If Trump jumped on this and said he'd legalize MJ he'd win the election. If Cliton did the same I wouldn't believe it.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 12 2016, @02:09PM
Clinton: "I'm cool! I smoke the devil's lettuce like the cool kids do!"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @02:26PM
She never would've had to deal with Bill having his whistle wet by interns!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @03:17PM
"I put it to my lips and I did inhale"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @06:09PM
Here's what the D team platform has to say about it:
Because of conflicting federal and state laws concerning marijuana, we encourage the federal government to remove marijuana from the list of “Schedule 1" federal controlled substances and to appropriately regulate it, providing a reasoned pathway for future legalization. We believe that the states should be laboratories of democracy on the issue of marijuana, and those states that want to decriminalize it or provide access to medical marijuana should be able to do so. We support policies that will allow more research on marijuana, as well as reforming our laws to allow legal marijuana businesses to exist without uncertainty.
Clinton herself is… evolving. It's what she does. She evolves. It's a double-edged sword. Who knows if her final form is Bernie Sanders or what.
Cons: She takes whatever positions are politically expedient. She has no moral compass or principles.
Pros: We can drag her by her feet, and she knows her shit.
I'm not voting for her personally, not yet anyway. 1.) I don't think she has a chance of losing. 2.) I don't believe in voting against or strategic voting, no matter how surreal and ridiculous the other major candidate gets. 3.) If she flip-flops on TPP or tries to sneak its provisions into TTIP/TISA, Western civilization as we know it is frankly doomed once those 3 are in place. (Maybe that's a good thing. I don't want to find out that way, but some things can only be cleansed with fire.) 4.) If she doesn't evolve on legalization and does nothing to really, actually fix Obamacare, I will have wasted my vote.
As far as voting for the clown the R team picked, if he fully backed legalization with the same fervor as his other beliefs, talked about how prohibition is a bad deal all the time, I can confirm I'd hold my nose, vote for him, and start calling him Mistah J while looking forward to rolling myself a nice fat J that would put a smile even on my face.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @07:49PM
She only swings with what will give her the most votes, pretty much like every career politician. Trump and perhaps a very few others (but I can't think of any) don't bend over for a vote as much.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @08:50PM
Trump and perhaps a very few others (but I can't think of any) don't bend over for a vote as much.
Are you kidding? He's pretty much done a 180 on every position he's ever had in order to run as a Republican.