In a 28-page decision, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has denied petitioners request to overturn the July 2011 denial by the Drug Enforcement Administration to initiate proceedings to reschedule marijuana under federal law.
In October 2002, the Coalition to Reschedule Cannabis, a coalition of reform organizations including NORML, ASA, Patients Out of Time and High Times, among others, petitioned the DEA to reschedule marijuana as a Schedule III, IV, or V drug. Following years of administrative delay, on July 8, 2011, the DEA denied the petition, finding that “[t]here is no currently accepted medical use for marijuana in the United States,” and that “[t]he limited existing clinical evidence is not adequate to warrant rescheduling of marijuana under the CSA.”
Petitioners then sought review in the federal Court of Appeals, alleging the decision by the DEA was arbitrary and capricious when it concluded that marijuana lacks a “currently accepted medical use” and has a “high potential for abuse.” They ask this court to remand the case to the DEA for reconsideration of its decision.
Written by Senior Circuit Judge Edwards, the decision ruled “On the record before us, we hold that the DEA’s denial of the rescheduling petition survives review under the deferential arbitrary and capricious standard. The petition asks the DEA to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III, IV, or V drug, which, under the terms of the CSA, requires a ‘currently accepted medical use.’ The DEA’s regulations, which we approved in Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics v. DEA, 15 F.3d 1131 (D.C. Cir. 1994), define ‘currently accepted medical use’ to require, inter alia, ‘adequate and well-controlled studies proving efficacy.’ Id. at1135. We defer to the agency’s interpretation of these regulations and find that substantial evidence supports its determination that such studies do not exist.
“In its scientific and medical evaluation,” the court held, “DHHS concluded that marijuana lacks a currently accepted medical use in the United States. In reaching this conclusion, DHHS applied the DEA’s established five-prong test, which requires a known and reproducible drug chemistry, adequate safety studies, adequate and well-controlled studies demonstrating efficacy, acceptance of the drug by qualified experts, and widely available scientific evidence.”
“We will not disturb the decision of an agency that has ‘examine[d] the relevant data and articulate[d] a satisfactory explanation for its action including a rational connection between the facts found and the choice made.’”
In this case, we need only look at one factor, the existence of “adequate and well-controlled studies proving efficacy,” to resolve Petitioners’ claim.
At bottom, the parties’ dispute in this case turns on the agency’s interpretation of its own regulations. Petitioners construe “adequate and well-controlled studies” to mean peer-reviewed, published studies suggesting marijuana’s medical efficacy. The DEA, in contrast, interprets that factor to require something more scientifically rigorous.
In making this assessment, we must “remind ourselves that our role in the Congressional scheme is not to give an independent judgment of our own, but rather to determine whether the expert agency entrusted with regulatory responsibility has taken an irrational or arbitrary view of the evidence assembled before it.
The DEA’s construction of its regulation is eminently reasonable. Therefore, we are obliged to defer to the agency’s interpretation of “adequate and well-controlled studies.” Judged against the DEA’s standard, we find nothing in the record that could move us to conclude that the agency failed to prove by substantial evidence that such studies confirming marijuana’s medical efficacy do not exist.”
Petitioners are considering their legal options at this time.
God, the Democrats and Republicans have broken the Judicial branch.
How about ordering some studies???
IT IS TIME THAT THESE PILL PUSHERS QUIT RESTRICTING A PLANT TO FORCE THEIR PILLS DOWN PEOPLE’S THROATS. There is no currently accepted medical use for beer either, which also has a high potential for “abuse” so why is that not under their jurisdiction?
Class action lawsuit against the govt for something? Re-petitioning? How did we end prohibition for Alcohol, rioting in the streets? No clue what to do next but I’m down for a multi-state-riot.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Who gives a fuck what the Supreme Court says! The American people will continue to ignore these apparatchiks. They are functionaries of the system, and will enforce cannabis prohibition.
The war on weed continues…
Disappointing, to say the least. Regroup and keep fighting. It will be rescheduled, just a matter of time. I have a hunch that it will be rescheduled before the next Presidential election.
Wow. . . I am at a loss,I did not want to read this during my after work session.
strike that, I did not want to read this at anytime.
Why does the US Government hold the patent #6630507 go have a read people
This patent the US Government owns on Marijuana
#6630507
Look it up!
Are you kidding me?
Does the DEA publicly provide their requirements for a study to be considered “adequate and well-controlled”?
Yep still the same old circle of propaganda… Make a plant illegal, and then because the subtle genetic differences and environmental differences in each grow produce a different cannabinoid profile, its too risky to use. How about drugs like antidepressants? Here is a wikipedia explanation of how some work:
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRIs are thought to prevent the reuptake of serotonin (also known as 5-hydroxytryptamine, or 5-HT) by the presynaptic neuron, thus initially maintaining higher levels of 5-HT in the synapse. Like all anti-depressants their mechanism of action remains unknown. SSRIs inhibit serotonin-mediated platelet activation. This leads to increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding; at times as high as 57% increase in risk. This is especially important in the elderly, those with a history of peptic ulcer disease or previous gastrointestinal bleeding, and those on blood thinners, such as aspirin and clopidogrel. Moreover, SSRIs inhibit nitric oxide synthesis, which leads to vasoconstriction. This is significant in pregnancy as SSRIs have been associated with the development of hypertension and pre eclampsia of pregnancy. This in turn can lead to fetal prematurity.[25]
SSRI antidepressants includes:
Citalopram (Celexa)
Escitalopram (Lexapro, Cipralex)
Paroxetine (Paxil, Seroxat)
Fluoxetine (Prozac)
Fluvoxamine (Luvox)
Sertraline (Zoloft, Lustral)
HMMM THEIR METHOD OF ACTION REMAINS UNKNOWN?
This does not come as any surprise. We need to keep pushing MMJ and legalization at a state level.
somewhere online there is really cool info on how more quantum styles of language and correct knowledge of world law culture may be the best way to proceed in matters of cultural policy reform, such as with food and drug policy. corporate world law culture is a mighty beast, so, making world civilization saner and freer is definitely a formidable task of great work.
the stupid thing is that they don’t allow any scientific research because it is a Schedule I drug. so how do they say that there are no adequate and well-controlled studies proving (marijuana’s) efficacy; the drug is not accepted by qualified experts?? it’s a circle…just keep going in circles. since it is Schedule I drug they don’t allow any studies and they cannot reschedule because there no adequate studies….hint, there are 18 states that have passed medical marijuana laws and 2 states legalized it for recreational use…hint #2 the federal government has a patent on medical use of cannabis. this is retarded.
It has no medical use, yet big pharma will patent it and put it in pill form.
How about the testimony of millions of sick people whose suffering has been eased by marijuana, rather than using pharmacueticals with their horrible side effects.
I guess the boneheads in the court agree with the circular logic the Feds have set up. If we don’t allow you to study weed according to our standards because we have weed as illegal then you have basis for proving it.
This is an i win, you lose bet that only lawyers could have put in place. If Obama wasn’t such a vag, he would stop this crap. However, this is how he likes to work. He hides behind his bureaucracy for political expediency.
Work to get every state to legalize weed. Washington only understands pressure from the people
One branch of government covering the ass of another branch. Gee, that could never happen huh?
Jurors need to nullify bad laws. Learn all you can about jury nullification.
What pharmaceutical company do these judges work for?
If there is no accepted medical value, then why the hell did the (possibly corrupted) US Government issue itself a patient in 2003 for medical marijuana as a neuroprotectant and antioxidant?
Patent*
you cant fix stupid
Really? “We defer to the agency’s interpretation of these regulations and find that substantial evidence supports its determination that such studies do not exist.”
So the courts are essentially saying, “We found a lot of evidence for the DEA’s claim that NO (<— bold font) adequate studies on cannabis have been performed by reputable professionals". Why? Because their argument "sounds legit, so we're not going to question it"… basically.
There exists over 2,000 years of time-honored empirical evidence, ample factual data and the anecdotal accounts of millions of responsible users that all strongly point to cannabis as a substance of medical and therapeutic value.
Which of these standards of checks and balances in regards to safety and therapeutic value did alcohol and tobacco get a passing grade on to avoid the dreaded Schedule I category? Hmm.
…and we can’t grow Hemp cause it might contain a trace of THC…but Doctor’s can prescribe Marinol, which is 100% THC but that is ok cause it is synthetic and we can control purity and put it in a pill…blah, blah, blah…
I think they write all that legalese to cover up that they know they are spouting pure bull-hockey.
“In its scientific and medical evaluation,” the court held, “DHHS concluded that marijuana lacks a currently accepted medical use in the United States. In reaching this conclusion, DHHS applied the DEA’s established five-prong test, which requires a known and reproducible drug chemistry, adequate safety studies, adequate and well-controlled studies demonstrating efficacy, acceptance of the drug by qualified experts, and widely available scientific evidence.”
the department of health and human services has decided that marijuana lacks medical use. that’s interesting, then why do they hold the patent on it’s medical use.. hmmm
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507.html
Thats a GREAT Idea Dave!!! Would that not be greatest thing EVER?? Order studies of the Plant and see just what it can do. I like the way you think Dave. Any chance some one from ANY Goverment agency is LISTENING??
Absurd decision. There are mountains of scientific studies that led many states to institute medicinal marijuana. How badly did the appeals lawyer drop the ball, if they couldn’t provide more than enough scientific proofs?
Did I read wrong, or was it false, that Feds somehow have a patent on medical pot? If I read right and they do… Guess its good for them that they make the rules and write the crap that makes it so. But I just dont get it.
Studies can not be done because it is a schedule 1 drug. In order to change scheduling we need double blind FDA studies conducted. Studies can not be done because it is a schedule 1 drug. In order to change scheduling we need double blind FDA studies conducted. Studies can not be done because it is a schedule 1 drug. In order to change scheduling we need double blind FDA studies conducted. etc…
The only thing the DEA is an expert at is propaganda. No worries, the people have maid their mind up and the people will legalize no matter what the DEA does.
As a published scientist, I fail to understand the following quote: “Petitioners construe “adequate and well-controlled studies” to mean peer-reviewed, published studies suggesting marijuana’s medical efficacy. The DEA, in contrast, interprets that factor to require something more scientifically rigorous.”
The court appears to claim that peer-reviewed, published studies suggesting marijuana’s medical efficacy are either not scientifically rigorous or less scientifically rigorous than… well, “something.” But such claims are farcical. By definition, peer-reviewed studies published in reasonably high-impact journals are not merely scientifically rigorous but the very definition of scientifically rigorous.
The court appears to claim that the most scientifically rigorous form of investigate query yet invented by mankind – the international peer review process – is insufficiently scientific, a patently absurd suggestion. The court fails to define “something more scientifically rigorous” or suggest what a sufficiently scientific alternative to international peer review – given the prohibition on domestic cannabis research in the United States – might resemble.
It’s hard not to indict the court for trolling.
This is disturbing I really thought we were on the way, maybe not, frustrating
Organize and VOTE these TYRANTS OUT!!! OUT!!! OUT!!!! ONCE AND FOR ALL….
We should organize a nation wide protest on 4/20. Show the government all the polls aren’t wrong.
I want the plant completely out of the Schedule and outright legalization. Pharmaceuticals based on compounds found in the plant can be in the Schedule. It’s clear they’re not going to re-schedule cannabis. Fuck the government’s patent on pot. They think just cause they put something down on paper that everybody’s going to lie down and take it. People are going to continue to ignore cannabis prohibition and take their chances. It’s such a farce. The longer prohibitionists prolong legalization the more money they’ll waste and more lives will be shattered and more deaths and suffering. More shootings today in Houston, Texas. If the mainstream media would start and maintain a steady beat of the deaths in Mexico, every day there is one, that just might hammer home that their lives count, too. Just because they’re Mexican and not U.S. American doesn’t mean that future deaths aren’t worth avoiding. If you think pot will be legal ten years from now anyway, why continue to waste the money and simply accept statistically the number of lives that will be lost until then, chalked up to the drug war–the euphemism is collateral damage. Political sociopaths with no conscience, probably attend church regularly.
ya know what? over the past 2 years this has happened 3 TIMES! Americans need to wake up and relize that our government does not care about us. All they care about is money and the new world order. The only reseaon marijuana is banned is because the goverment”s monoply on pharmaceuticals,oil, cotton and other textiles would crash and be worthless. Its all just a scam like cancer and how its been cured for the last 50 years but the government will make more money treating it then they ever would cureing it.
marijuana is one of the 50 fundemental chinese medicinal herbs and has been used for medical purposes for over 5,000 years in china alone
Heres where you have to put history in perspective….
Our great country once ruled that slavery was legal and binding…case in point (Dredd Scott Case)
The man who spearheaded cannabis prohibition as we know it once said…
(He whose name must not be spoken)
“There are over 100,000 marijuana smokers , and they mostly are Negros , Hispanics , Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic Music.. Jazz and Swing result from the usage of Marijuana. It also causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negros, entertainers, and any others. ”
The first African American President who just so happens to be a constitutional scholar SHOULD BE spearheading the end of this disastrous policy.
As a Black Man this is one the issues I positively HATE how the President has handled it .
Marijuana prohibition is akin to SLAVERY, and must be DISMANTLED as such…
It seems the only way to make this happen, is to make the shame of keeping prohibition worse than the shame of changing policy. They are not there to make “change”. They’re there to keep the status quo. Put up a billboard at election time…send a message…shame them to the point where they have to do something other than “nothing”. They just can’t stand to admit they were wrong about any one thing. But pride comes before the fall, I’ve always heard.
Dear dea, you are comprised of useless fucks. And fuck them. people are jus gonna go get it from wherever so who cares what they say.
How aboutgrabbing Michele Leonhardt, Baraq Obama, and every other damn NAZI we can find and throw them out on their damn head.
A call to all-
The gov won’t budge. First of all we need all states to legalize and then try the gov again in court.
However, if this doesn’t work ……..
There will be a revolution that will be well needed.
Revolt in number.
Well… how about John W. Huffman’s work detailing all those JWH series cannabinoids? Didnt we get em all yet? Known and reproducible drug chemistry… Nobel prize waiting for some biochem genius.
Petition
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legalize-marijuana-federal-level/St1MJKM5
And why aren’t there any FDA studios with more rigorous scientific testing? Because its schedule I and it will never be allowed to go through such tests. How stupid.
Listen, I don’t want it legal as medical Marijuana…I just want it legal period.
This country was founded on freedom of choice…I do not need a communist government telling me what I can and can not use.
Yes, I understand the very real concerns with cocaine and meth and heroin…but that is another whole different ballgame. MJ hurts no-one…far,far less destructive then alcohol and tobacco.
I believe the communist government we live under is worried we might be able to grow it ourselves and they won’t be able to make huge profits from it when legal.
These old fucks need to be voted out NOW and let some new open-minded blood in there to take control.
A F**ing PLANT and they put you in jail for enjoying it….Well don’t even think of eating a tomato or thats 20 yrs to life………assholes….F them
So where does this leave us now? Are we back to square one? Maybe they are sending a message to Colorado and Washington telling us our votes are not going to change anything.
As long as marinol exists, all I can say is wtf
So where are the initial studies that where done when Richard Nixon was in office, when he classified cannabis a schedule 1 substance, and why are they more substantial than the modern up- to- date ones that have been conducted world- wide since then?
How many deaths have been attributed to cannabis compared to something like baby aspirin,what classification is alcohol? I hear studies all the time in the media about how moderate drinking is good for your health,does that mean it’s a medicine or a recreational drug,or,could it be both?hmm.Of course we know what happens when you drink too much alcohol,it can resemble a trip on angel dust or even bath salts–leading to unconciousness and possibly – death
the hypocrisy continues
The government does not care about the people. They only care about their agenda toward a uniform police state, one world government. Just like they are trying to demonize, criminalize, the gun people, despite what a majority of Americans want, they are hitting back at marijuana. And don’t expect these one world government stooges to allow states like CO and WA to get out of line. I really think the reason that we have not heard anything is that THEY are looking for a way to scare the little people. Thanks to this gun grab, more and more Americans are waking up to an unreasonable government that is ignoring the will of the people.
I believe at the end of the day, judicially is the way this gets done. Why? The Prez, Congress, DEA, nor FDA dont have the balls to do it, so I believe the Supreme Court is the best chance. It has been my belief all along that if it is reformed significantly, it will be imposed judicially.
No folks, the circle breaks in court. The judges can order studies. Also, plenty of studies have already been done. The case needs to be refiled. It is like the DEA is claiming there isn’t “enough” evidence the sky is sometimes blue; they just checked and its gray and raining somewhere all the time.
We just need to take them at their “expert point of view”. Whatever they are on, it is a lot stronger than herb. All we want is for them to actually follow the law.
“The DEA’s construction of its regulation is eminently reasonable.”
In other words, keep chasing your tail, it’s so adorable to watch!
They know they’re being obstructionists. Give up the idea that “they’re not listening.”
What they’re doing is stalling; they live in a house of cards and they’ve always known it. They’re whistling past the graveyard; it’s not that they don’t hear the barbarians at the gate, it’s that they want us to go knock on the DEA/DHHS’ gate instead.
Mark my words, we’re winning.
Also, I forgot to mention —
Lest you believe they don’t know it’s a farce, consider this: they’re insisting that we prove a negative. They didn’t have to prove that it was harmful in the first place, that literature doesn’t exist in any credible form. They want us to first prove that it’s not harmful, then prove that it’s beneficial. We have to use all the evidence in the world, they don’t have to show one whit.
Anyone who hasn’t seen American Drug War make haste, it’s available for free on You Tube. That should clear up any frustration about why they’re so impossibly dense.
Schedule 1 = Catch 22
Politically motivated,
not scientifically valid classification…!!!
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The government should have NO authority to
place bans / prohibitions on ANY plant species,
(except locally, in regard to specific ecosystem-disrupting invasive concerns,
but NOT regionally, nationally / internationally, against a specific plant “per se”
as with present “War On, (some), Drugs” botanical-genocide campaigns),
NOR
the against raw products of ANY plant species,
such as foliage, flowers, seeds, stems or roots of said plant.
The government holds a patent which describes effective use of cannabinoids and there helpfulness in treatment.
Cannabis is schedule I because there is no acceptable medical use because there are no acceptable studies proving it is effective because it is schedule I and study is not allowed.
Acceptable medical use can only be judged by the DEA which does not practice medicine and is does not use any drug for any medical use.
Acceptable medical use is not determined by physicians who have widely found it useful.
This drug remains Schedule I because the DEA has been delegated the power to say it is. The only way this will change is if the Congress and president direct otherwise.
Wow… Not cool with this. How the hell did the DEA articulate their position?
Their isn’t any medical use?? BITCH YOU MUST BE KIDDING!
Hopefully one day, soon, this will change.
In one ear right out the other those morons. We’re on the right track to free the weed. Keep doing like we’re doing and like Sam Cooke said a ‘change is going to come’.
hiding the truth and claiming it is not there is grounds for revolution of the people against the government that denies reality.
INSTEAD OF ALL YOU PEOPLE COMPLAINING WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO DO IS START SIGNING STATE PETIITONS TO LEGALIZE WEED…..STATES RIGHTS BABY
Very Disappointing
To John…
They already have it in pillform over at Solvay Pharmaceuticals who curiously enough were given permission by someone to take THC and synthesize it…its called MARINOL. So, lets reflect, the FDA approved something whose main active ingredient happens to be THC the same thing that keeps the plant on the Schedule 1 drug list. But in Marinol you get gunk and patients have ditched it in record numbers.
What a joke. They just dont want you growing your own medication for FREE. Thats all this is about, the Big Pharma LOBBYISTS have it locked down.
It’s back to the same ol game of petitioning & conducting new advanced studies on the benifits of Marijuana for medical & spiritual needs as well as social(public speaking, music & art). More hard work. Its’s all been done & we’ll do it again folks. We will continue on to enlighten these spiritually ill & greedy people who seek to control it for themselves.
Big Pharma’s greed and the government control is at the forefront of this issue. People understand that Bayer owns the patent on this wonder drug in the form of phytochemicals(cannabidiol and other cannabinoids)The only path will be through governmental healthcares prescription plan. Sorry to wake you all up.
Its just the first step of many. You didnt think they were going to give up so easy did you? DEA makes a lot of money off of Cannabis. We just have to not give up! Just keep trying keep voting! Keep writing and emailing your local Rep. Senator and City Officials! We will win the people always do just takes effort!
Some Dark and Evil entity is behind this.
after this, someone with deep pockets should sue the FDA and pharmacy company’s.
if it has no medical benefit, then how can it be Man-Made and used for anything?
looks to me like they are trafficking in a schedule 1 drug.
manufacturing a schedule 1 drug.
maintaining a dwelling for a schedule 1 drug.
using a schedule 1 drug on the population,
that is highly addictive, and has NO found medical benefit.
100k to anyone that has been prescribed this drug, or to family members if they have passed.
win it and all the cancer sufferers will get big bucks.
lose it and it must have some medical value.
“Political sociopaths with no conscience, probably attend church regularly”.
This is why it wont change
The people responsible for this decision cannot pull their collectives heads of of their (you know whats). God Damn Them All!!!
Lets just keep spamming them with petitions.
don’t worry folks when Government finally collapses and the so called supreme court and dem and gop have no job we can do what ever the fuck we want…the o mighty dollar is almost worth nothing 🙂 and our so called elected officials and appointed people wont work for free;p
This shits so outta hand I wanna throw up. Good thing I have some weed to smoke. Hey a medical use to my stomach turning from reading that garbage. So you the American public are all living under rocks. Nah just the ppl against this a wonder drug.. imagine what would come out if they did conduct studies. Oh they are and still do. Whatever they can go Fuck themselves I do not think this will continue much longer. But then again its been 40 years..
Well, they just dont listen or care do they. We are certainly long overdue for equality. Its time to make them responsible for what they created almost a hundred years ago. I have proposed to NORML a hunger strike that i am willing to do, but id like to see who, if any really care this much to make the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom and to show them we are beyond all seriousness. please comment on my idea of doing a hunger strike and if u do support this, email everyone at NORML for them to be in contact with me.
and this surprises who
Probation did not work with alcohol and look at the mayhem that is responsible for. The needed potential tax revenues that are being left on the table and the expense of the failed war on drugs is not responsible government. Where is the representation of the will of “We the People”, no polls that I have seen demonstrate that the majority of citizens support the continued prohibition.
What they don’t tell you is that the necessary research is purposely stymied to prevent the accurate determination of the plant’s efficacy. Marijuana has been used for decades against the agony of chemotherapy, yet somehow the studies just never get done to provide a firm scientific footing.
The spin is masterful. Now it’s ’eminently reasonable’ for marijuana to be on schedule 1.
The facts are the facts:
The earth is running out of resources.
Plants are our best hope for a stable earth
Marijuana is the most evolved influential plant on the earth
We could replace 5000+ products with hemp and marijuana because of the renew-ability factor of the plants and cycling the CO2 more efficiently.
Our planet doesn’t need the emissions from cows and cars (18% + 13% = 31%damage).
Humans eat some of the worse food on the planet due to lack of education and commercialism.
Many Cancers are caused by poor diet, hemp seeds could replace meat and save us and the earth.
Pharmaceutical industry and poor diet are the two leading causes of death in this country possibly world.
Marijuana kills 0 people, since idk forever…and if you did die from a marijuana overdose you probably would go down as a legendary human being.
Our brains are designed to take natural occurring substances like marijuana and improve our bodies by placing thc and cbds in receptors that require there use.
etc….etc…..etc..
If we boycott the lobbyists products that are saying no to our way of life…we will change there tune….I am not a vegan….but soon I may be because of the severity of the situation…..meat, drugs, and alcohol….are the reasons it is still illegal….so remember that next time buying a drink, eating a steak, or taking Tylenol.
But the basis of the original argument, to deem it is a Schedule I drug, are all based on lies.
if they can’t turn it into an unnatural and toxic product they can’t market it as a pharmaceutical. W
I can hardly believe that these Judges are going to go with what the DEA has to say about marijuana!
The Idiots!!! It is so obvious that the DEA wants to keep marijuana illegal for their own greedy purposes that only a complete idiot can’t see through their BS!!!
What do you know about this experimental stem cell research having fantastic results yet NOT approved by the FDA forcing heart patients to go to the Bahamas for treatment ~ An 80 year old man we knew had the heart of a 20 year old in a few short months
! ~ We heard the FDA knows but doesn’t want to upset all the Doctors and drug systems now being used! ~ Sounds like the Cannabis cover-up all over again! ~
of course they did….and that’s why WE THE PEOPLE have to vote for cannabis regulation and taxation. the government will never do it, the harder they push, the harder we have to push back. the same as the end of alcohol prohibition. nothing is playing out differently
corrupt pieces of shit
This is not simply about whether or not marijuana has scientifically based medicinal value, the real issue is about my inalienable right to choose my medicine or my poison, if you will, without the mother fuckin’ federal government telling me what I can and can’t put into my body. There are literally millions of deaths each year as a result of taking pharmaceutical drugs. Why doesn’t the mother fuckin’ federal government crack down on that?
When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce [American Citizens] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security…Such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter [the present] systems of government. The [recent] history of the [U.S. Federal Government] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over [We the people of these United States.] Whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government. [We have reached that point. Who has the courage to stand?]
I doubt anyone wil read this that matters but the solution is in their own judgement.
They say the are upholding the DEAs findings that there is ” it concluded that marijuana lacks a “currently accepted medical use” and has a “high potential for abuse.”
Well let the DEA show their studies that helped them conclude this. They MUST have had a study to say that this is true.right?
I dont think they have one. So make them prove the possible potential for abuse. They wont be able to and so the ruling can be changed
Follow the money and we see their reasoning
American government greed will be the cause of its downfall!!!
I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about marijuana/hemp. This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men, including marijuana/hemp smokers/producers, are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free and smoke marijuana as well as produce and provide hemp. And when Americans are sent to Iraq or Afghanistan, our marijuana/hemp supporting soldiers, marines, airmen, and sailors in all parts of the world they are meeting freedom’s challenge on the firing line, and I salute them for their honor and their courage.
It ought to be possible, therefore, for the American marijuana smoker to attend any public institution of higher learning they select without prejudice because they have a marijuana criminal record.
It ought to be possible for American marijuana smoker to register and to vote in a free election without interference because they have a marijuana criminal record.
It ought to be possible, in short, for every American marijuana/hemp supporter to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his indulgence in marijuana/hemp. In short, every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. But this is not the case.
Difficulties over marijuana/hemp discrimination exist in every city, in every State of the Union, producing in many cities a rising tide of discontent that threatens the public safety. Nor is this a partisan issue. In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party, politics, or if they smoke marijuana or grow hemp/marijuana. This is not even a legal or legislative issue alone. It is better to settle these matters in the courts than on the streets, and new marijuana laws are needed at every level, but law alone cannot make men see right.
We are confronted primarily with a moral issue of legalizing marijuana/hemp. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans marijuana smokers and hemp supporters are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow American marijuana smoker as we want to be treated.
We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home, but are we to say to the world, and much more importantly, to each other that this is a land of the free; that we have no second-class citizens except marijuana smokers/hemp supporters; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to marijuana smokers/hemp supporters?
Now the time has come for this Nation to fulfill its promise. The events in America and elsewhere have so increased the cries for equality for marijuana smokers that no city or State or legislative body can prudently choose to ignore them.
The fires of frustration and discord are burning in every city, North and South, East and West, where legal remedies are not at hand. Redress is sought in the streets, in demonstrations, parades, and protests which create tensions and threaten violence and threaten lives. We face, therefore, a moral crisis as a country and as a people about legalizing marijuana/hemp. It cannot be met by repressive police action. It cannot be left to increased demonstrations in the streets. It cannot be quieted by token moves or talk. It is a time to act in the Congress, in your State and local legislative body and, above all, in all of our daily lives. It is not enough to pin the blame on others, to say this is a problem of one section of the country or another, or deplore the fact that we face. A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that marijuana/hemp revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.
Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.
This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents.
We cannot say to large percent of the population that you can’t have that right; that the only way that they are going to get their rights is to go into the streets and demonstrate. I think we owe marijuana smokers/hemp supporters and we owe ourselves a better country than that. We have a right to expect that the marijuana smoking/hemp supporting community will be responsible, will uphold the law, but they have a right to expect that the law will be fair, that the Constitution will be marijuana/hemp blind.
GET INVOLVED AND LEGALIZE MARIJUANA/HEMP!!!!!
My heros. The fuderal fud-de-duds.Out of touch geezers.
So are the people working at the DHHA less ridiculous than those at the DEA? Because this decision makes it sound like if we could work on getting the DHHA to make a finding that marijuana has an acceptable medical use, we can force the DEA to reschedule.
Forget the petitions it is clear they are not listening. It is time for protests. Lets get a million tokers in front of the White House, Congress, DEA headquarters, NIDA, and any other place that is trying to stop us. We should take a note from the Occupy people and overload any buildings open to the public owned by these entities. People have made clear their wishes and the federal thugs are ignoring the will of the people it is time for FULL ON PROTEST!
Also For all the people who think it is about the government agencies having the balls to do it… I’ve been waiting 40 years and if you can’t build up the balls in that time then it is something else.
To follow up on my previous comment with quotes from the DHHA website:
“reports found that there are too few scientific studies to determine marijuana’s therapeutic utility”
“Approval for the use of marijuana, or perhaps more importantly purified compounds based upon the chemicals found in marijuana, as therapeutic agents must show substantial evidence of effectiveness and show the product is safe under the conditions of use in the proposed labeling. Safe, in this context, means that the benefits of the drug appear to outweigh its risks.”
(http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t040401a.html)
So basically, that’s where work needs to be done to convince the DHHA to recommend rescheduling marijuana. Even then, though, it sounds like they might only ever OK synthetic forms of the drug because of safety concerns.
The govt wants to ban guns so when they make irresponsible decisions people cannot stand up for their rights. Screw the govt lackeys all the way up
Once again we get RAILROADED!!!!!!!!!!!! Our bastasrd Congress is holding us hostage!!!!! Undo this strangle hold Now!!!!!!! This is obvious Stonewalling the tax paying voters. We need to take back our country.
F— them all!!!!!!
Since there is “no known medical value,” maybe we need to sue for a release of the patent the government holds…I mean, which is it?
The accepted medical use for alcohol and tobacco are what again exactly?
Bill Maher and similarly deep pocketed and influential individuals need to sign a complaint and fund a campaign against Bayer or whoever is the pharma company peddling Marinol. Marinol is Delta-9-THC, and therefore must be illegal if Pot is illegal simply because it is substantially the same. DEMAND arrests! Of course no big pharma company will face prosecution, so the absurd discrepancy must be pushed until the executive branch decides it will not prosecute anyone for Marinol/Delta-9-THC Schedule 1 violations.
Did the dismissal actually say what they would consider ‘accepted medical use’ for cannabis (‘marijuana’ is a slang term). Who must accept the utility of cannabis for them to consider it. There are doctors prescribing it and finding it effective. There is also academic research that acknowledges the medical efficacy of cannabis.
To say there is NO evidence they must get some one who is medically qualified (not a judge, government official, politician etc) to question the legitimacy of ALL research that shows a medical application and discredit the doctors who report medical benefits. That is a hard task because no one with a medical career would put their name to such an exercise (doctors don’t discredit fellow doctors without good cause). Maybe a new challenge to question/clarify what is ‘accepted’ evidence would be appropriate.
I do hope people will remember this when they vote a straight party ticket.
Federal government wants to remind the citizens of the United States that their country and their state is subjugated by federal law even if it’s not constitutional.
Marty
Beautifully written! I would urge you to submit this as a letter to every large newspaper you can. It deserves to be read by the public that don’t read this site (and may not even be aware that it exists) in order to reach as wide an audience as possible.
Thank you for taking the time to write this!!!
MS has a new bill SB 2369 Lets get out the support or this will not happen! Come on Mississippi!
i stand with we the people!!
It sounds like Capital Hill are a bunch of pussies or bitches. Now that majority African-Americans males are in jail, more-or-so for bud, now its time to “legalize the cannabis” again in America. CANNABIS IS JUST FOOD!!
A plant cannot lie to you, only you can lie to it.
So now, Federal Judges are on the “take” too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsDic2na8co&feature=share&list=LL2mOKShIGDPWFB_xxniaRiQ see this documentary. If it does not link search Medical Cannabis and Its Impact on human health. There are also many many links to all kinds of scientific studies refuting their claim it has no medical value besides the fact the US Govt. Patent. No wonder this country is going to hell.
I come to the conclusion that the only medicine allowed for use must be scientifically proven to create more health problems that require more medicine.It is becoming more clear with every event that comes to pass that the entire way of life and doing business hinges solely on cannabis being illegal.
We have been pushed beyond the breaking point.The government has manically tried to eradicate the in-eradicatable. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. As such, i believe the prison industrial complex and the special interest groups are insane. Either that or they are profiting hand over fist enforcing these cruel policies. Checks and balances means when one branch of government hurts people, the other branches step up to stop it. This has not happened for our situation. almost all reform initiatives have come from THE PEOPLE. Something is wrong. We’ve tried tirelessly to force a conversation. What else can we do to stop this madness!?
@Marty – I cannot see myself participating in a hunger strike when the prohibitionists would be happy to let us all die.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legalize-marijuana-federal-level/St1MJKM5
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA.
OR MAKE TOBACCO & ALCOHOL ILLEGAL.
LOL 😛
..OR DO NOT GET YOUR -MEDICAL- ADVICE FROM THE DEA. WHENS THE LAST TIME YOU GOT A PROSTATE EXAM FROM A JANITOR??
@ Joel: The Other Joel: Unless its a straight Libertarian ticket vote
Maybe if the DEA, and these Judges would read the Fed Govt’s in-depth reports regarding patent# 6630507, the 3 complete Fed Gov’t reports of LaGuardia, The Shaffer Commission, Chief DEA FED Law Judge Francis L. Young’s extensive 2 year Findings of Fact,and listen to the testimony from Millions of Patients who are benefiting from medical marijuana instead of the outright, corrupted false lies that have been proven over, and over again to be just the vapors of stench with no merit, they would then rule on the side of justice.
When you have people like this in charge/head > Michele Leonhart > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwaXsQY6Eg , what do you expect? If people like Michele Leonhart are in seat, hell will freeze prior of marijuana becomes rescheduled, right there defines stupid and stupid is stupid does.
Wasn’t no surprise to see they denied rescheduling of marijuana.
Need more people like Polis, Paul Whitesell, and one that recently admitted, they’ve lost the war on drugs. Need to get all these heads together to run this country and people like them that has more than half a brain.
I will continue to display the good names these guys that fight for us, in my comments.
Come on, we have, the state police, the congressman’s, the people, how much longer could this be ignored? Really? It’s very irritating, like a big blood sucking tick just gnawing at your leg.
Marijuana keeps my bi-polar, A.D.D., at bay. It is easier to name off what marijuana doesn’t do for you than to name off what it does help/cure.
Plain out stupidity and greed.
The US Federal Monkey Court of Appeals for We The People. Once Again Screwed, wow what a surprise! Who needs, science, common sense and years of a FAILED DRUG WAR to look back on! The US Federal Monkey Court of Appeals, What Jokers! Monkey Courts are so Amusing, NOT. IDIOTS
@erin – Thank you and i will try to find some trusted media sources that would help, maybe NORML knows of a few?!?!
@Don M – I don’t blame you and really don’t expect many to take the chance but its time the lives that have been lost and destroyed be on those who oppress us. I’m literally sick to keep seeing lives lost over this matter while those responsible are not being held responsible for taking these lives and destroying families. Even if you didn’t do it, i would need many to be vocal supporters, which i believe you would be willing to do. thanks for the reply Mr. M, much appreciated.
the defense of the nazi’s for their war crimes was “we were following orders, it was our job”.
The reason for the seemingly inexplicable disconnect of the govt. in continuing the lack of medical value claim while at the same time holding the patent for cannabinoids as medicine is because the FDA is currently holding clinical 3 trials with Sativex right here in the US (ref: NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute website). Sativex, produced by GW Pharmaceuticals (UK) in partnership with Bayer, Novartis, Otsuka, Almirall and Neopharm is nothing more than a whole-plant cannabis herbal tincture in a spray bottle cleverly disguised as a “pharmaceutical” product. It’s currently approved in about 8 European countries. Once it’s approved here, they will justify their continued war on using “raw cannabis” claiming somehow that their product is different and better than what has been available for many years now in medical cannabis states.
Right…because every drug that we can access openly, like alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine, have clear medical uses with long histories of positive research and confirmation…
Yes well written Marty Erin right this should be put in newspapers. like the one in Washington d.c. Let all our so called leaders read this.
I am not at all surprised. Even if all 50 States declare pot legal, the feds will probably still insist it’s still Illegal by federal law. Probably if that happens, it’ll become something that’s not as enforced. Who knows, mayhap it’ll change, as States slowly make it legal. 😉
Here’s Hoping.. 😉
The only way to end Cannabis prohibition is by passing local state level legalization measures! The Feds will have no power over the people.
Petitioners: We petition the Court to reschedule marijuana.
Court: Yeah, OK. We defer to the judgement of the Agency.
Agency: Good job, Judge! Making that easy money, eh?
Judge: ‘I know. ‘ere…
Forget the feds. The states need to take this into their own hands and legalize it. The States will force the Feds hand!
in 2003 the US Government obtained a patent #6630507 that states the Marijuana in fact has medicinal value. If tens of thousands of people signed a petition and wrote letters (like myself) how can they deny us the simple fact to just follow through with the bill? It’s a waste of time. The federal government “thinks” it has all the control now and will do what it wants no matter the voice or opinion of its citizens.
Our government will bankrupt our nation before releasing hemp to the open market in the US or anywhere in the world because the backbone of the world economy is rooted in corporations that depend on hemp prohibition remaining in place.
The oil industry,,with bio-fuel produced from renewable hemp crops,,how would they keep their profits and assets secure if they couldn’t have fuel shortages and price control when they cannot control farmers but they can turn off oil wells? And they are a major part of the foundation of our economy.
And of course the pharmaceutical corporations,,if you are familiar with all the health issues cannabis can treat,,imagine the losses they will suffer from cannabis legalization.
The arms manufacturers,,imagine no wars over oil or the loss of control when any country can grow enough hemp to fuel their own transportation systems.
And all the other hemp products from lumber to plastic that our markets depend on selling other countries.
It is going to take a serious in their face situation to ever change and it may take more patriots blood to cleanse the roots of freedom.
Can these dea bozos afford anything except blue jeans.
When the government is part of the problem and refuses to be fixed, then it is time to replace the government.
Clay, marijuana prohibition isn’t good for the economy, the war on marijuana and the war on drugs are helping kill the economy. The more money we spend, the worst it gets. Sure, the war on drugs is making some folks rich, but these folks are a very small minority, much smaller than say the minority population of pot heads 🙂 Its like a giant leach constantly sucking money out of the economy so it can get bigger and do more damage, putting more people out of work.
It stagnates the economy and liquidates our wealth. Sort of like pissing in the wind, but way more stupid.
As mentioned above, the end of Nixon’s CSA Drug War, the longest war in US history, against its own citizenry, will come when the states have decided. Two-thirds of states (33) with medical marijuana allowances written into law will presumably determine “accepted medical use.” Eighteen states have MMJ laws now. Two have legalized cannabis, and one of those, Colorado has provided for cultivation of 6 plants and will determine new legislation (by 2014) regarding the cultivation of industrial hemp.
The Supreme court acknowledged (Randall vs. US) that cannabis has a known medical use of lowering intraocular pressure which is incidentally beneficial to those who risk blindness from glaucoma, which is caused by persistently high pressures within the eye. The US patent office also has acknowledged this beneficial effect of cannabis use, first discovered by narcs who were trying to find a way to test for those who had used cannabis (so they could arrest them for non-crimes)
Antiemetic, antispasmodic, neuroprotective, and antineoplastic are all properties attributed to cannabis, not as false claims, or imaginary benefits, not anecdotal stories, but tested through peer-reviewed science.
The DEA has a primary mission to keep cannabis in schedule 1 and lie about it. That was the point of Nixon’s CSA, created by Nixon right after he charged the Shafer Commission to determine, somewhat concretely, what should be done about cannabis, and who could have access to it, as if such a thing were a high priority.
The Shafer commission concluded that illegalization would be unreasonable and baseless and that cannabis has medically useful properties, mentioning that it has a potential use to treat tumors (cancer). Nixon ignored all this and in his flippant, bitter style, created the CSA, had his attorney general John mitchell put drugs into schedule categories. Two guys did this and Mitchell was a lawyer, not a doctor. Hello? People?
Shafer commission on cannabis by Nixon, and then CSA and declared drug war by Nixon, around the same time? Um. Hello? People?
So there are over 20 federal agencies related to drugs. The DEA is charged with keeping cannabis in schedule 1, no matter what. The NIDA is charged with the allocation of funding, of scientific research regarding drugs, and specifically will fund only research proposals that seek to find/discover the negative effects, only harm and not the benefits, of drugs. Everyone knows federally funded research returns the most benefits from fields of scientific inquiry because this work is prohibitively expensive.
Both agencies are non-scientific. The DEA will never stop claiming “no medical use” until it is has been relinquished of duty and dissolved, and no federal court is going to call them out on that false claim, period, judges don’t want to get themselves fired or entrapped in bureaucratic “justice” outside the courts.
NIDA specifically is defined as an agency that provides and allows for scientific research regarding “drugs” (those other than pharma) by allocating fed research funds to those that meet their criteria. They only allow for studies and research proposals that are meant to find the harm of drugs, not the good or benefits. Wait, an organization that empowers scientific research but only selectively, toward results that reinforce conclusions they are searching for, a disgrace to objectivity and empiricism. And for political reasons, political meaning ‘who gets what.’ They are simply covering up information, ignoring or suppressing what information that doesn’t suit their task of maintaining the drug war, by serving as an arm of the propaganda machine
the states will decide in the end, not the system that supports the status quo.
And when the need for these agencies disappears accordingly, they’ll be reabsorbed or modified toward other tasks, using their billions of dollar budgets to “do stuff”
After alcohol was no longer the enemy they made “drugs” the enemy even though alcohol is still a drug too. After states legalize, these sorts will need to find some other activity to call “work”
Everyone who supports the decriminalization, full out legalization and downgrade of marijuana as a schedule 1 drug, to less then that of cocaine & heroin, should send the DEA a letter of response to just how ridiculous their decision is. Very ridiculous and absurd.
Soon, most of the states like mine here in WA will join our fight for legalization of this plant. When there are even southern states like Arkansas who put it on their ballots in 2012 election, but narrowly failed, then you know the country’s mindset on this issue has changed, just like it did for alcohol prohibition, one by one, the states overturned it. I am hopeful of the changes coming.
DEA Website:
http://www.justice.gov/dea/contact.shtml
This petition denial must go on to the supreme court. Take one example of evidence; marijuana provides direct medicinal treatment for Chrone’s disease. The university of Colorado at Boulder, the university of Meir in Israel and I believe a research institute from Berlin all published evidence in various journals of medicine including the harvard journal that cannabidoids in marijuana simulated the cb1 cannabidoid that people with Chrone’s disease lack.
My nephew has Chrone’s disease. The side effects of the long list of pills he is overprescribed are so bad that one day he stopped taking them. He told his parents he would rather die with dignity facing the symptoms of Chrone’s disease than suffer the symptoms of those pills again. When my nephew first developed Chrone’s disease he was busted by his parents smoking pot. His mother, my sister, being a school teacher and his father a German pilot like to follow the rules. They forbade him to smoke and refused to pay for his college as punishment. The bitter irony of this failure of American drug policy is that research on the cb1 cannabidoid (research that is actively prevented by the DEA), shows that the psychoactive properties of THC– that make us “high” can be seperated from the cb1-simulating cannabidoid that causes us to feel hungry, absorb nutrients through stimulation of the intestines and as a result, cures Chrone’s disease! Even on the principal of not wanting to get your children “high” regardless of legality, there is evidence of more medicine in some home-grown marijuana than all eleven pills prescribed to fail. We must stop the unacceptable profit of phàrmacuetical companies that wish to sell harmful drugs at the expense of people with chrone’s disease who suffer needlessly.
Take that to the supreme court Normal. And may God bless every seed bearing plant and herb God made for us to use.
excuse me America. Gateway means? Gateway drug for conservatives means alcohol will lead you to cocaine, crack, meth, heroine, etc.
Marijuana leads you to being Peaceful and loving . Dont forget Conservatives- Non- Violent and Peaceful.
Why is it that the Midwest is soo uptight?
You can be pulled over because the officer or State Trooper noticed you had a large Pimple visible from his squad car. Or perhaps a tail light out , or driving 5miles slower because it is icey. What happens next – the officer asks you for drivers license and registration. Then, He asks you intokhis car against your will. That is also known as a temporary Jail. asks you numerous questions he feels… Do not answer them. He is stalling for the K-9 officer to arrive… Nightmare!
T
Its time for the supreme court to overturn the controlled substance act. Let’s vote a democratic congress in 2014 in hopes we will have a functional government to pass this long overdue federal legislation. It will be the last two years of Obama’s second term, his girls are ols enough to choose what medicine is right for them, and the states are already speaking in the majority for these issues. Ending the drug wars, developing home-grówn medicine for a growing mental health crisis and legalizing industrial hemp to create environmentally safe cellulose plastics are more than good economic sense; its in the interest of our national security.
jim
Another well written piece! I wish I were as eloquent with the written word.
Both your and Marty’s comments should be addressed to EVERY large newspaper you can find. They may not be published by some, but if they realize that these letters to the editor are cc’d to everyone, some of these papers will print them!
By sending this information only to this site, you’re essentially preaching to the choir.
This has to be read by the general public!
THANK YOU!!!
New White house petition
Take the power to set drug schedules from the Drug Enforcement Agency
I’m just trying to get the word out
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/take-power-set-drug-schedules-drug-enforcement-agency/n8TVVz59?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl
In response to the Patent # you can all read it here. The government has known about these findings for many eons. I think I will have to send this to my new Governor Inslee and the DEA. I want it in the DEA;s face. http://www.google.com/patents/US6630507
OBTW: Governor Inslee: Pot legalization must inspire (Article) January 24, 2013 4:42 pm’confidence’http://www.kplu.org/post/governor-inslee-pot-legalization-must-inspire-confidence
When will you people learn they don’t give a damn what we the people think. They only care about those who have bought their votes.
Circular reasoning!
1. We will not re-schedule marijuana because there is no acceptable use.
2. There is no acceptable use because there isn’t enough research.
3. The DEA denies research because there they is no acceptable use.
The marijuana stamp laws also used circular reasoning. It was illegal to possess marijuana without a stamp, but to get a stamp, you had to present marijiana, but if you did that, instead of selling you a stamp, they arrested you for possessing marijuana without a stamp.
Remember Catch-22? You could only get out of the military if you were crazy, but you first had to fill out a form that said you were crazy. However, by filling out the form to escape the war, that proved you were sane because a crazy person wouldn’t have tried to escape the war, and so your request was denied.
This is unconstitutional, and it’s tyrrany. I want the liberty guaranteed me in the Constitution.
Obama recently stated that fighting Colorado and Washington state over legalization wasn’t going to be a wise use of resources nor a priority.
Based on his past statements/actions, that’s code words for a new crackdown.
In addition to using circular reasoning, the federal government’s argument is a syllogism. They’re using their own decision to not accept a medical use as proof that it has no medical use.
Deciding that marijuana has no medical use doesn’t prove that it has no medical use. It only proves that they have decided that it has no medical use.
Someone either needs to study logic or ethics, or both.
Speaking of re-scheduling drugs, the Obama administration is now going to re-schedule common pain meds to make them more difficult to get. Prepare to suffer.
And I noticed that he waited until he was re-elected to do this.
If marinol is a sythetic cannabinoid and it has been tested, why wouldn’t those results bode for a medical benefit for marijuana itself… i don’t understand their logic http://www.rxlist.com/marinol-drug.htm
Once again, you will not have freedom until you take it and throw them out on their heads. WAKE THE FUCK UP!
While I do believe that marijuana has medical value….OBVIOUS medical value, I maintain that the fight has to be over legality….PERIOD. Nobody has the right to tell me what I can or can’t put in my own body. Using marijuana is a basic human right if a person so wishes to exercise that right.
Did congress rendered the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 to the DEA, and gave them full entitlement to be the supreme judge of those laws?
William and Joel, I can’t agree more. This circular reasoning is so completely devoid of logic and common sense. They still want to arrest people for doing nothing wrong.
Obama wants to “professionalize” the War on Drugs. That is quite a tall order Mr. President, how can we “get better” at shitting on America?
you guys believe we the people have a say any more… you make me laugh. we the people died along time ago . its about them and there capitalist gains.
The dea has only one job and that is busting cannibis users. They aren’t even interested in real drug trade because they don’t make money off it. They only care about their idiotic strategy to keep getting government funding. Rest assured we are finally beating them at their own game and they will be publicly humiliated when it finally becomes legal everyplace.
Basically cannabis is the life blood of the dea without it the entire agency goes up in smoke. They will never back down from this fight. It would be like admitting they have been intentionally stealing from the American public for years and wrongfully imprisoning people… Which they have…
I agree with Warren!
It’s true only the Swiss have really done deep study and No controlled Study by any Large university in the US has been able to meet that standard.
How would alcohol be classified, if it were a scheduled drug? I have no problem with strict enforcement of restrictions for minors or even in public, but this policy seems dismissive.
What actions are being taken towards appealing this case once again?
Ever since prohibition of alcohol many people became alcoholics and problems with alcohol went through the roof. Now in this day and age, we banned cannabis and there are more people smoking weed then ever. Prohibition dosent work stop letting history repeat itself
DEA PATENTED MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN 2003 FOR MARIJUANA MEDICAL BENIFITS
It’s not that it lacks substantial evidence for medical benefit. It’s that the DEA is completely ignoring any and all evidence of its benefit, for the sake of keeping it illegal.
Nick you got it man. Y’all should of seen Michele Leonhardt of the DEA awhile back in congress when questioned on the CSA whether or not Marijuana is more harmful than cocaine. She responded, marijuana is a schedule 1 drug. Without even answering the question. You never hear their answers because saying so would support Marijuana’s stance. Marijuana is bad, why? Because its illegal! Nonsense!
I’m smoking weed until I die regardless of the law. #hypocrisy