Group appeals DEA’s ruling that marijuana has no medicinal value

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Eric W. Dolan

The medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) and the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis (CRC) on Thursday appealed the federal government's decision to keep marijuana classified as a dangerous drug with no medicinal value.

The Drug Enforcement Administration denied a nine-year-old petition to initiate proceedings to reschedule marijuana in late June, claiming 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 decision (PDF) was announced two weeks ago.

The petition sought to have marijuana removed from schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act and rescheduled in schedule III, IV or V. Currently, the DEA classifies marijuana as a schedule I drug: the most restrictive classification reserved for street drugs like heroin with a high potential for abuse and no real medicinal value.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/21/group-appeals-deas-ruling-that-marijuana-has-no-medicinal-value/

[HopeHoops]

1. I don't know, man. Last time I smoked it I certainly felt pretty fuckin' medicated.

[Playinghardball]

2. LMAO!!

[felix_numinous]

3. 80% of Americans favor legalization,

and this number remains consistent.

[Webster Green]

4. The DEA has no value whatsoever.

They are just another drug cartel, and they are as evil as any Mexican cartel.

They waste taxpayer's dollars playing whack-a-mole with drug dealers while carrying on their own drug deals on the side. They are in the same category as the ATF, and the FBI. All a gang of corrupt mutherfuckers.