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U.S. decrees that marijuana has no accepted medical use

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Medical marijuana: U.S. rules that marijuana has no accepted medical use - latimes.com

The decision by the DEA comes almost nine years after medical marijuana supporters asked the government to reclassify cannabis to take into account a growing body of research that shows its effectiveness in treating certain diseases.

Marijuana has been approved by California, many other states and the nation's capital to treat a range of illnesses, but in a decision announced Friday the federal government ruled that it has no accepted medical use and should remain classified as a highly dangerous drug like heroin.

The decision comes almost nine years after medical marijuana supporters asked the government to reclassify cannabis to take into account a growing body of worldwide research that shows its effectiveness in treating certain diseases, such as glaucoma and multiple sclerosis.

What the hell is going on???
 
Medical marijuana: U.S. rules that marijuana has no accepted medical use - latimes.com

The decision by the DEA comes almost nine years after medical marijuana supporters asked the government to reclassify cannabis to take into account a growing body of research that shows its effectiveness in treating certain diseases.



What the hell is going on???

The DEA obviously has more medical qualifications than medical experts. Well, that and they want better job security.
 
I think I've said this before, but because I am forced to take 12 pills a day that have very ugly side effects, among them being short term memory loss, if Kansas would legalize medical pot I could get off of three potentially dangerous prescriptions.

But where would that leave Big Pharma?
 
Most people know that theres no medical reasons, medicinal weed was an end run by the left to save the heads from jail time...its made a mess of california...
 
I think I've said this before, but because I am forced to take 12 pills a day that have very ugly side effects, among them being short term memory loss, if Kansas would legalize medical pot I could get off of three potentially dangerous prescriptions.

But where would that leave Big Pharma?

No you haven't. I'm really upset by this move. Alcohol is far more damaging than weed. Why don't they outlaw that? Yes, I know prohibition didn't work. I don't actually give a ****. Alcohol is bad, and it must be outlawed.
 
I think I've said this before, but because I am forced to take 12 pills a day that have very ugly side effects, among them being short term memory loss, if Kansas would legalize medical pot I could get off of three potentially dangerous prescriptions.

But where would that leave Big Pharma?

3 of my siblings have Huntington's. My oldest brother is baked all day long. It's the only way he can temper the disease's impact on his movements and his rage.
 
No you haven't. I'm really upset by this move. Alcohol is far more damaging than weed. Why don't they outlaw that? Yes, I know prohibition didn't work. I don't actually give a ****. Alcohol is bad, and it must be outlawed.

LOL. good luck with that.
 
Most people know that theres no medical reasons, medicinal weed was an end run by the left to save the heads from jail time...its made a mess of california...

I call bull****. It is very effective in chronic pain management and as a sleep aid. I could at the very least get rid of Savella and Ambien if it were legal.

The American federal government vehemently resists the notion that marijuana has any potential therapeutic utility for the past five decades, and yet it unofficially continues to supply marijuana for therapeutic uses to a few medical patients under a government program.[1] For the past 29 years, marijuana has resided under the federal controlled substance classification reserved for chemical substances that serve no medical purpose.[2] Yet, during the same time that the federal government has defended this restrictive classification it has quietly recognized marijuana’s medical potential by approving the use of synthesized drugs containing many of marijuana’s active ingredients.[3]
_With all the attention that the issue of marijuana’s medical and therapeutic utility has received, it is interesting to note that the marijuana plant has a rather extensive history of utility in other arenas aside from the medicinal and recrea
 
There are many cancer patients that would disagree with this "ruling". Along with the bulk of the medical community.

Even the FDA would disagree, Sativex and Marinol are cannabinoid based medications that are fully acceptable. Meanwhile, methamphetamine and cocaine enjoy schedule II status while marijuana is still schedule I. Apparently speed and coke are more medically valuable than marijuana.
 
No you haven't. I'm really upset by this move. Alcohol is far more damaging than weed. Why don't they outlaw that? Yes, I know prohibition didn't work. I don't actually give a ****. Alcohol is bad, and it must be outlawed.


Keep your grubby little hands off of my cheap whiskey. :)
 
Keep your grubby little hands off of my cheap whiskey. :)

Okay, I'm back down to a slow simmer. ;)

I'm telling ya, sir. If I did not have grandchildren in this State, I'd be moving to another country. And I don't even smoke or in any other way ingest weed. But my day may come (my mother died of Lewy Body Dementia, and at my last physical I was told I should have complete neurological testing to rule out either LBD or Parkinsons). If I come to a place where I need it, it better be accessible. Legal or not. I know people, I will be imbibing.
 
This is absolutely absurd, and is plainly nothing but politics. It has nothing to do with science. Marijuana ABSOLUTELY has medical uses, and it's far less dangerous than many of the currently legal drugs like alcohol.

I have a friend with MS who takes one bong hit 2-3 times a day. Once in the morning, once around dinner time, and maybe once in the middle if his pain is especially bad that day. His least favorite part of it is the actual high - the 20 minutes after he takes the hit. He says it slows his thinking down. But the pain-mitigating effects last for hours for him.

And what's his legal alternative? Addictive opioid pain killers, which can cause severe side effects over the long-term, especially in someone who already has neurological problems. Pain drugs that will definitely turn him into a junkie and that will eventually compromise his quality of life, or a couple hits of weed a day? Hmmm...

In full disclosure, I actually don't like weed. I have no horse in this race. I wouldn't smoke it even if it were legal because I just don't care for it. But this is still stupid.
 
Just days after the report that the Obama Administration has actually increased Drug Raids on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries......when compared to the Bush Administration......and now this?

To all you Democrat voters that have Decriminilization and Legalization at the top of your priority list....I hope you now realize the Big Liberal Nanny State was never going to let you have your weed and smoke it too.
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Okay, I'm back down to a slow simmer. ;)

I'm telling ya, sir. If I did not have grandchildren in this State, I'd be moving to another country. And I don't even smoke or in any other way ingest weed. But my day may come (my mother died of Lewy Body Dementia, and at my last physical I was told I should have complete neurological testing to rule out either LBD or Parkinsons). If I come to a place where I need it, it better be accessible. Legal or not. I know people, I will be imbibing.

When the pills aren't working and life gets too ****ty I do take a couple of hits. I try not to though, as if I am caught with it I become a criminal.
 
Иосиф Сталин;1059639041 said:
Marijuana and alcohol should be made illegal.

Yeah, that worked so well during prohibition.
 
When the pills aren't working and life gets too ****ty I do take a couple of hits. I try not to though, as if I am caught with it I become a criminal.

I hear ya.

This is reminding me of a comic I saw probably 20 years ago, I wish I could remember his name. He was talking about what it will be like when Boomers hit the nursing homes. "Roll this joint, Timmy; grandpa's hands are a little stiff today." Music over the intercom, "Whip it! Whip it REAL GOOD."
 
unreal. the DEA has zero credibility on this issue.
 
This move would be especially confusing to anybody who had a chance to view the DEA's publication on medical pot -- before they yanked it off their web site.



As an unrelated aside, are there any states-rights conservatives who are okay with the DEA raiding distributors of medical marijuana when doing so is legal under state law?
 
This move would be especially confusing to anybody who had a chance to view the DEA's publication on medical pot -- before they yanked it off their web site.



As an unrelated aside, are there any states-rights conservatives who are okay with the DEA raiding distributors of medical marijuana when doing so is legal under state law?

The Feds step on states rights here by federally declaring pot a schedule 1 controlled substance. I honestly think the states would have a decent case if they fought it though.
 
The one-sidedness of the decision blatantly demonstrates that this isn't about rational science or statistics, but power. Obama's recent reversal on drug policy, and now the DEA's severe reversal, shows that someone got to them. Probably the pharmaceutical industry and the prison industry. Despite crime rates dropping, more prisons are being built than ever before. Marijuana is an effective criminal cash cow.

Sad but true. This is a more disturbing setback. It seemed like real progress was being made. It just goes to show you though that the Democrats are no different than the Republicans. They are all susceptible to lobbying.

Corporate lobbying should be illegal.
 
The one-sidedness of the decision blatantly demonstrates that this isn't about rational science or statistics, but power. Obama's recent reversal on drug policy, and now the DEA's severe reversal, shows that someone got to them. Probably the pharmaceutical industry and the prison industry. Despite crime rates dropping, more prisons are being built than ever before. Marijuana is an effective criminal cash cow.

Sad but true. This is a more disturbing setback. It seemed like real progress was being made. It just goes to show you though that the Democrats are no different than the Republicans. They are all susceptible to lobbying.

Corporate lobbying should be illegal
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Times like this, hitting the 'like' button is not enough.
 
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