Marijuana advocates who hoped the cascade of states moving to legalize medical marijuana would soften the federal stance on the drug faced disappointment Thursday as the Drug Enforcement Administrationannounced it will keep marijuana illegal for any purpose.
Marijuana will remain a Schedule 1 substance under the Controlled Substances Act. Substances in Schedule 1 are determined by the Food and Drug Administration to have no medical use. States that allow marijuana for medical use or legalize recreational use remain in defiance of federal law.
The announcement to be published Friday in the Federal Register relaxes the rules for marijuana research to make it easier for institutions to grow marijuana for scientific study. The DEA currently authorizes just one grow facility in Mississippi.
In reaching its conclusion, the DEA said a Health and Human Services evaluation shows marijuana has no ‘‘currently accepted medical use’’ because "the drug’s chemistry is not known and reproducible; there are no adequate safety studies; there are no adequate and well-controlled studies proving efficacy; the drug is not accepted by qualified experts; and the scientific evidence is not widely available."
"There is no evidence that there is a consensus among qualified experts that marijuana is safe and effective for use in treating a specific, recognized disorder," the report added.
"At this time," the DEA concluded, "the known risks of marijuana use have not been shown to be outweighed by specific benefits in well-controlled clinical trials that scientifically evaluate safety and efficacy."
It's just the government and 1%ers that own prisons, wanting to have something that they can use to make money off of from arrests and sending people to prison.
Buck Nasty - It's just the government and 1%ers that own prisons, wanting to have something that they can use to make money off of from arrests and sending people to prison.
And there it is, all neat and concise ^^^
I put the DEA's release in Google Translate and this is what it spit out...
"Once again, we haven't figured out how making it legal will generate more $$ and jobs as keeping it illegal has historically done. If someone can come up with a concrete plan we can seamlessly transition into, where the Prison Industrial Complex won't lose billable "customers" and the law enforcement/probation/parole/court systems have an established population they can replace the pot smokers and growers with.... we will gladly jump on board. Until then, we're gonna go with the status quo."
They say there is no valid medicial use. When I have a migraine, it helps me much more than the triptan mediciations I have been prescribed do. When I deal with anxiety, it helps me block out those anxious thoughts. Put that proof in your pipe and smoke it DEA.
Buck Nasty - It's just the government and 1%ers that own prisons, wanting to have something that they can use to make money off of from arrests and sending people to prison.
And there it is, all neat and concise ^^^
I put the DEA's release in Google Translate and this is what it spit out...
"Once again, we haven't figured out how making it legal will generate more $$ and jobs as keeping it illegal has historically done. If someone can come up with a concrete plan we can seamlessly transition into, where the Prison Industrial Complex won't lose billable "customers" and the law enforcement/probation/parole/court systems have an established population they can replace the pot smokers and growers with.... we will gladly jump on board. Until then, we're gonna go with the status quo."
If you ask any probation or parole officer, especially around major cities, I'm sure they'd say "fuck those marijuana laws" because they're severely understaffed and overworked.
