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Really we should blame all the executive administrations for not forcing the DEA to do their job properly. Keeping cannabis as a Schedule 1 is completely scient
by anon84873628 4y ago
Really we should blame all the executive administrations for not forcing the DEA to do their job properly. Keeping cannabis as a Schedule 1 is completely scientifically unjustified. There was already an existing legal framework available to legalize the drug. But since the DEA/FDA is so corrupt, we have to fall back to checks & balances available in the states and Congress.
- janalsncm 4y agoVast majority of cannabis arrests are at the local level. Even a federal legalization law would not stop that.
- pstuart 4y agoWe should be legalizing (and regulating/taxing) all drugs. The DEA is obviously incentivized to fight this as that would kill their raison d'être. The War on Drugs has effectively brainwashed most people to think that the best way to control "dangerous" drugs is to make them illegal. And the politics of this is that were the Dems to try to do this then the GOP would campaign on the Dems trying to give drugs to kids like candy.
- pyuser583 4y agoThe whole Schedule business is pure propaganda. The DEA regularly describes it as dangerousness: “Schedule I is the most dangerous!” But it’s not dangerousness, it’s whether there is a medical use. Marijuana didn’t have a medical use, because it’s not very powerful. It makes you feel dizzy and hungry. If it was a drug, spinning around in circles would he schedule I. Heroin is powerful enough to be a legit pain killer, so it’s Schedule II. This really is a case of reporters not doing their job.