Marijuana as schedule 1 is one of the dumbest things we have ever done. The fact that it remains in the modern era speaks to how incompetent the US has become.
DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'
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#12"Anti-research clowns deny the results of research"
Is anyone surprised?
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#13I think it's OK say that Marijuana should be legal but acknowledge that the concrete proven medical benefits attributed to it are pretty marginal.
That seems fair, certainly the "it's natural, it cures everything" kind of arguments are tissue-paper thin, but you'd think there'd be some acknowledgement of its common use for pain-management, and there are even FDA-approved medications derived from cannabis[1].
1: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
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#14What bullshit. I have a prescription for a cream containing CBD and THC that has almost totally removed arthritis pain in my hands. Really life changing for me.
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#15Those “Congratulations to Drugs for Winning the War on Drugs” bumper stickers must really bite if you're a DEA agent.
You mean "Congrats to Drugs", right? (You put "The War on Drugs" twice, which doesn't make sense)
Congrats to the war profiteers for winning the budget to fight the war on drugs.
Congrats to drugs for winning the war on drugs.
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#17I think it's OK say that Marijuana should be legal but acknowledge that the concrete proven medical benefits attributed to it are pretty marginal.
If you are counting THC and CBD extracts as part of it's medical benefits, they are fairly wide.
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#18I am reminded, from time to time, that one of my high school classmates is living out a 25-year federal sentence after being convicted on marijuana conspiracy charges. On the other hand, I can get marijuana delivered to my house.
> I am reminded, from time to time, that one of my high school classmates is living out a 25-year federal sentence after being convicted on marijuana conspiracy charges.
There has to be more to this right? Trafficking tons of the stuff? Repeat offender? Violent history? enhancements?
see also: https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
edit, since people clearly are against this comment: I'm not arguing that that the "more to this" justifies the 25 years, only that "25 years for a marijuana conspiracy" isn't the whole story and we'd all benefit if we were able to judge the whole story rather than some person's stylized version of the story.
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#19What bullshit. I have a prescription for a cream containing CBD and THC that has almost totally removed arthritis pain in my hands. Really life changing for me.
Do you find (or know) that the THC is contributing to this effect on top of the CBD?
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#20I am reminded, from time to time, that one of my high school classmates is living out a 25-year federal sentence after being convicted on marijuana conspiracy charges. On the other hand, I can get marijuana delivered to my house.
What's worse is realizing that the majority of people in jail for selling even the smallest amount of weed are black, while the majority of people who own legal pot dispensaries churning out industrial levels of weed are white. Add in the famous Eichmann quote, and it really seems like this is a deliberate result of the system.