Federal Court Will Review Marijuana’s Classification As A Dangerous Drug

Carne Seca

Carne Seca

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by Aviva Shen, Think Progress August 1st, 2012

For the first time since 1994, the question of medical marijuana will go before a federal court. The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has agreed to hear a lawsuit challenging the DEA’s classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical value. The ten-year-old suit, brought by Americans for Safe Access, will present scientific evidence on marijuana’s therapeutic properties.


The appeal brief calls the DEA’s refusal to analyze numerous studies on the drug’s medical uses “arbitrary and capricious,” and asks the court to order the DEA to conduct a hearing on the scientific evidence. Marijuana is currently a Schedule 1 substance with “high potential for abuse, in the same legal classification as heroin and cocaine. In spite of numerous petitions to reschedule the drug, the federal government has maintained that marijuana has no medical value and launched costly and aggressive eradication efforts. Just a few weeks ago, the Justice Department sued to close the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the country, even as Congress, in a rare bipartisan move, prepared a bill to protect medical marijuana possession.


But the conditions for the ASA’s case — in which oral arguments will be presented on the morning of October 16 — are optimal. Since the original petition was filed in 2002, studies have piled up evidence of marijuana’s benefits in the treatment of illnesses including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and cancer. In 2011, the National Cancer Institute listed cannabis as a complementary and alternative medicine, noting that it has been used as medicine for thousands of years. And, of course, 17 states and the District of Columbia (with Massachusetts poised to join the list) have laws on the books recognizing marijuana’s medicinal properties and enabling safe providers to open shop.


Rescheduling marijuana would help ease the tensions between these state laws and federal crackdowns. It would also remove the roadblocks that have prevented more extensive research into the drug’s properties, which, according to the American College of Physicians, is much needed.
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Americans For Safe Access.
 
Great news, but since the case is 10 years old, Bush gets ALL the credit, not Obama.

IMO Neither gets credit for shit, but Cheese thinks Obama is responsible for the sun coming up and every good thing that happens is a direct result of an Obama action.
I took an awesome shit today, I better send a thank you card to the Pres.
 
NoDrama said:
Great news, but since the case is 10 years old, Bush gets ALL the credit, not Obama.
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In the immortal words of Uncle Buck:

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NoDrama said:
I wonder if he really wrote that, or if some staff member wrote it. I would think a president would be far too busy to deal with such petty matters.
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No it's a publicity stunt, he wrote it knowing it would be posted on RIU and he would get all the soft hearted stoners support. Then he wants to legalize marijuana. Secure a dictatorship of 12 years right? JK he seems like a good guy, and I know I couldn't deal with the stress of his job so more power to him
 
NoDrama said:
I wonder if he really wrote that, or if some staff member wrote it. I would think a president would be far too busy to deal with such petty matters.
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I wonder if she really wrote that?!

lol.

I can't remember how many thousands of letters the President gets each week, but I remember reading something a while back that said he usually reads 2 a day, or tries to.

I'm sure how ever many he reads, they have been screened by his staff. That might be his real signature and not a stamp though, who knows. I bet that little girl thought that was the coolest thing to get a letter back from the President though, how ever it went down.
 
You only remember the bad from your enemy and only the good from your hero. Even if both are there to fuck us. We're so stupid they actually call it good cop bad cop.
 
NoDrama said:
I wonder if he really wrote that, or if some staff member wrote it. I would think a president would be far too busy to deal with such petty matters.
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nonsense. reagan often responded personally. the president himself has claimed that he tries to write some personal replies daily. i would too if i were president.

some parts seem form-written, but other parts feel like the president put his personal touch in there.

and i don't think you would call it petty if it were your kid being bullied just because of who you were or who you loved.


Canna Sylvan said:
Carne,
You still gloating?
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Canna,
I'm still gloating. Your shit just got rejected overwhelmingly. Proceed to sulk in flakes of corn. Something about veganism. You're a slut. Come suck me.
 
judges who rule in favor of reclassification would be more likely under willard than obama.

just kidding, but i bet a few retards and sock puppets just agreed with me.
 
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