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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
I dont understand you at all. The drug schedules are part of the Controlled Substances Act... the purpose of which is to clearly spell out which drugs are regulated by the Federal Government. As i have been saying, it has nothing to do with States.
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As I have also been saying the drug schedules clearly dictate which drugs fall under which class and which have any medicinal usage at all. The DEA and the FDA work a great deal together on such. If this was not even close to the case then the FDA could have marijuana reclassified if it really desired and followed any scientific data.
There are numerous case studies paid for by Government agencies. Once they come back with an opinion that is different than marijuana is evil and highly addictive. It gets shelved, ignored, and placed on the we need more research list.
Interestingly it is the FDA who gave a very few select patients medical usage, most are no longer alive today but those that are, are still supplied by the FDA and not the DEA. On the flip side though, the FDA will not authorize any company to use marijuana in any form to test for medical usages for other drugs.
Then to just spit in the wind. The FDA whom along with the DEA declare that marijuana has no medicinal value, are perfectly fine and did approve marinol. Marinol is synthetic marijuana that is ingested. Not only can you overdose and die using marinol, unlike marijuana. For most users, keeping stuff in their stomach is near impossible and that is one of the main reasons they use marijuana. They can smoke it and it settles the stomach allowing them to eat. Where if they take the marinol, vomit a little latter, then try to take some more. The closer and closer they can get to ingesting to much and over dosing. Any users of marinol will also fail a drug test, indicating they are using marijuana.
Now if marijuana has no medical usage, why is there a chemical substitute that does the same thing, just a lot more dangerous. That is perfectly legal to prescribe. It just does not seem to test as effective as marijuana, and can be fatal.
This is not just a law you can overturn. It must be fought and fought on a state by state basis. Until enough people shout enough is enough and the Federal Government has no other choice but to reschedule it either to class 2 or even class 4. There will be numerous battles, there will be casualties. The laws are draconian to prevent the battles from the get go. Just because a law is in place, does not mean that the law is just or right. This drug classification is just one of the few racially motivated over science laws still floating around that needs to be abolished.