Grow For Vets hopes, one day, that Veterans Administration doctors will be allowed to write recommendations for medical marijuana use.
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“When we were given the option of cannabis back in jersey he was only given a couple months to live, that was three years ago”, said Jennie Stormes, whose son uses medical marijuana. He added that the DEA supports “legitimate medical and scientific research on marijuana”.
Now only researchers at the University of MS have the government’s permission to grow pot.
Eight Democratic legislators had urged the DEA to reclassify marijuana to a Schedule 2 drug. Sen.
That is the province of the Food and Drug Administration, he said.
For more details on the DEA’s drug scheduling, a full list can be found on their website.
11, 2016 that the Obama administration will keep marijuana on the list of the most risky drugs, despite growing popular support for legalization, but will allow more research into its possible medical benefits.
He said the DEA’s decision also doesn’t address concerns surrounding banking or tax deductions.
She said rescheduling marijuana would allow for more regulation to an already growing market and allow more people to take advantage of what she described as the “holistic benefits” of pot.
After all, what good is it if the federal government authorizes more cannabis production, but then continues to make it hard for most research to move forward because its agencies do not believe in the study goals.
“As states continue to legalize medical and recreational marijuana, there is more that the federal government must to do to provide states with legal certainty and empower the operation of safe systems across the country”. “HHS concluded that marijuana has a high potential for abuse, has no accepted medical use in the United States, and lacks an acceptable level of safety for use even under medical supervision”, the DEA said in a report Thursday.
Schedule-2 drugs are chemicals defined as drugs with a high abuse potential – or chemicals that can lead to severe psychological or physical dependence, like cocaine, meth, adderall, and Ritalin.
Marijuana was placed in Schedule I in 1970, when Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act.
Studies have shown that marijuana might help decrease chronic pain and nausea, ease seizures, improve the appetite or be useful in psychiatric treatment, Wergin and Bostwick said. However, the DEA said that the decision was taken after careful consideration and was based on “scientific and medical evaluation”. “But I think it’s ridiculous that, given all the evidence to the contrary, the federal government would continue to classify cannabis as having no recognized medical uses”.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday rejected calls to relax a almost five decade-classification of marijuana as a unsafe drug on par with heroin and ecstasy, dealing a blow to pro-legalization advocates and the budding pot industry.
