“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 letter said.
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“People can argue about the pluses and minuses of marijuana, but everyone knows it’s not a killer drug like heroin”, Sanders tweeted August 11, the same day news broke that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) would not be reclassifying marijuana.
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration announced on Thursday that it would keep marijuana in the same legal category as heroin, preserving a major obstacle to its legal medical use.
Q – How does the DEA’s decision affect state laws that allow the use and/or sale of marijuana for medicinal or recreational use? This decision has already drawn ire [Reuters report] from some including US Representative Earl Blumenauer who said “patients and marijuana businesses trapped between state and federal laws”.
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign has revealed that if she is elected president, she would re-schedule marijuana from a schedule I substance to a schedule II substance.
“We continue to encourage work to assess whether there are appropriate and effective therapeutic uses of marijuana and its components and believe the drug approval process using scientifically valid and well-controlled clinical trials is the most appropriate way for this to occur”, FDA spokesman Michael Felberbaum said in a statement. The FDA previously concluded that marijuana has “no now accepted medical use in treatment in the United States”, according to National Public Radio (NPR).
Nationwide, a 2015 Harris poll in May found that 81 percent of adults in the USA favor legalizing medical marijuana in their home states, while 49 percent support legalizing it for recreational use. The amount of marijuana available for research has also increased, he said. Marijuana supporters are hoping it might overrule cannabis’ regulatory state.
“We have children suffering seizures, veterans fighting opioid addiction and still the federal government refuses to act, not because of any particular medical research, but because of a United Nations convention that took place over 55 years ago”, Garrett said.
“It is best not to think of drug scheduling as an escalating “danger” scale – rather, specific statutory criteria (based on medical and scientific evidence) determine into which schedule a substance is placed”, Rosenberg wrote. The DEA, for example, spent $18 million past year destroying marijuana plants while people in three states were legally using it for fun.
In October 2015, federal Judge Charles Breyer ruled that a 2014 amendment to a federal spending bill prohibited prosecuting medical-marijuana providers who are in compliance with state law, but that ruling is not binding outside Northern California. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island and Jay Inslee of Washington and psychiatric nurse practitioner Bryan Krumm of New Mexico.
But no, said DEA head Chuck Rosenberg.
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The medical-marijuana group Americans for Safe Access evaluated more than 500 studies for its response, stating that cannabis has no known fatal dose and no significant effects on the brain when users aren’t actually high.
