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The absurd thing is that while marijuana being a schedule I drug which in the DEA's own words: >> Schedule I drugs are the most dangerous drugs of all the drug
by nathanasmith 10y ago
The absurd thing is that while marijuana being a schedule I drug which in the DEA's own words:
>> Schedule I drugs are the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence.[0]
Cocaine and methamphetamine are both schedule II.
Now I understand the difference is that Schedule II means there are some medical uses but to lump marijuana in with "the most dangerous" but not meth? That just seems ridiculous.
[0]https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml
- milesokeefe 10y agoMethamphetamine is routinely prescribed for ADHD under the brand name Desoxyn, it absolutely has medical use.
- spraak 10y agoBut it's manifold more dangerous than cannabis
- yarou 10y agoAlcohol and tobacco are several orders of magnitude more dangerous than anything currently scheduled.
- milesokeefe 10y agoFentanyl is scheduled, so that's really not true.
- Buge 10y agoThey kill more people simply because they're more popular. I don't think they're more dangerous per dose.
- ItendToDisagree 10y agoThink again!!! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311234/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311234/ Alcohol is incredibly bad for your body dose by dose compared to marijuana. Sidenote (not from this study): Mushrooms are supposedly the least harmful to the human body... Who'da thought?
- Buge 10y agoI wasn't talking about marijana or musrooms. I was talking about for example heroin, which is schedule 1.
- yarou 10y agoCocaine and its related metabolites have accepted medical use. Particularly by ENTs and such. Schedule I drugs have no known medical use and high abuse potential, which marijuana currently falls under. Whether or not you agree with that classification is an entirely seperate issue.
- TillE 10y agoI really can't stand when objective issues of science and medicine are framed as something to "agree" or "disagree" with. The scheduling of cannabis is crap, and literally everybody knows it. The DEA has to embarrassingly dodge the question whenever it's brought up.
- yarou 10y agoWhat is objective here? The only objective truth is biological determinism. The rest is political garbage that I have no interest in discussing.