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Saturday, January 26, 2013
On Tuesday...
The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Drug Enforcement Agency – and declined to change the official drug classification of marijuana. Currently, the DEA classifies marijuana as a schedule 1 drug – which is reserved for the most dangerous typed of drugs that have absolutely no medicinal benefit. In fact, drugs like cocaine, opium, and morphine are listed as Schedule 2 drugs – which they say are safer, and have more medicinal value, than marijuana. The plaintiffs in the case presented more than 200 peer-reviewed studies that show the benefits of medicinal marijuana. And Governor Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island, and Governor Christie Gregoire in Washington, both called for marijuana to be rescheduled. But the court wasn't swayed, ultimately ruling that they are "obliged to defer to the agency's interpretation" of controlled substances. It's clear that the battle for sensible drug reform will not be won on a federal level – it will be won in the states, and has already been won in Washington and Colorado.
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3 comments:
Just one more story of a corrupt legal system. All I see are more judges being payed to make these out-of-touch opinions and rulings.
It can't rescheduled, that would lose it's value to the government. They are making way too much money to throw it all away by making it legal.
From the sale, the fines, court and legal costs, prison costs, parole and probation costs, different agencies costs and lawyer fees, everyone involved is making a fortune.
That would be like telling McDonald's to stop making burgers and fries.
The states may and have made it legal but at the federal level? Doubtful. Unless really forced to.
I wonder if the drug cartels paid for those weapons in cash or weed from fast and furious.
The cartels paid in cash, but got the coke and weed from cops who stole it out of the evidence room. That classification (calling marijuana just as dangerous as heroin and MORE dangerous than cocaine and morphine!) merely serves to prove just how stupid they are. Marijuana, in the HISTORY OF MANKIND, has NEVER killed a single person. NOT ONE, unless 500 lbs of it fell of a truck and crushed him. But, there's GOLD in them there laws and prisons to be built and cops to employ chasing their ass all over the place to accomplish nothing except some new awards, plaques, and promotions. But we are supposed to RESPECT their JUDGMENT and wisdom?? hoiw do these people do these things with a straight face????
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