US Doctors Testify In Federal Court That Marijuana Needs To Be Rescheduled

gb123

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The fact that marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug is slap in the face to science, compassion, and logic. For something to be Schedule 1, it has to have no medical value. Marijuana clearly has medical value. This is proven by the fact that the federal government grows and supplies medical marijuana to four federal medical marijuana patients, and has for decades. The federal government also has medical marijuana patents. It may be the most hypocritical policy in government to say that marijuana should remain Schedule 1, and that’s saying a lot because the government is full of hypocrisy.

Doctors were in federal court yesterday making those arguments. Per Smell the Truth:

Doctors Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, retired physician Phillip Denny, and Greg Carter, Medical Director of St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute in Spokane, Washington will testify Monday that marijuana — real name, “cannabis” — is not the demon drug the federal government makes it out to be. Accepted science does not justify the listing of cannabis as a dangerous “Schedule I” substance, many say.

t is my considered opinion that including marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act is counter to all the scientific evidence in a society that uses and values empirical evidence,” Dr. Hart declared. “After two decades of intense scientific inquiry in this area, it has become apparent the current scheduling of cannabis has no footing in the realities of science and neurobiology.”

This is an unprecedented hearing, writes cannabis law reform advocate Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML.

“This is the first time in recent memory that a federal judge has granted an evidentiary hearing on a motion challenging the statute which classifies cannabis to be one of the most dangerous illicit substances in the nation.”

The testimonies will keep going. I’m hopeful that the judge will see the truth, but I won’t hold my breath that there will be any action on this area of public policy. If the Obama administration truly wanted to re-schedule marijuana, the administration would have already. Obama knows this and Eric Holder knows this, despite Eric Holder’s recent comments that he would be ‘open to the idea.’
 

VIANARCHRIS

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Do you think we should send this link to Health Canada? Maybe they can share that "two decades of intense scientific study" seeing as though their excuse for not calling it medicine is a lack of scientific study.
 

GrowRock

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Health Canada is a joke and wouldn't release the actual evidence that supports any medical use for cannabis. They should be held responsible for all of the bs they have done to patients /tax payers, who have to pay for there bs personal ajendas instead of actual studies and research....

Peace
 

bigmanc

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It's already too late. Those who get in now will get crushed under the weight of falling prices.
Nope, legalization will bring prices higher and make illegal/black market dealing zero tolerance. Take a look at Colorado.
 

ttystikk

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Health Canada is a joke and wouldn't release the actual evidence that supports any medical use for cannabis. They should be held responsible for all of the bs they have done to patients /tax payers, who have to pay for there bs personal ajendas instead of actual studies and research....

Peace
This would happen if our societies actually understood and dispensed real justice.
 

ttystikk

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Nope, legalization will bring prices higher and make illegal/black market dealing zero tolerance. Take a look at Colorado.
I live there, and I'm telling you the only reason prices are what they are is because of the scarcity starting at every border. It would be $300 a pound otherwise.
 

CannaReview

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Chris....you're not thinking about the children....(shaking my finger).
Let me fix that for you


You're not thinking about the corporate profits. We are transitioning from monster amounts of money spent on policing cannabis to now a corporate product which is controlled by the ones who were running the policing part before.

The idea that a naturally occurring plant can't be grown and is illegal is in itself insane.
 

ttystikk

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Why is there scarcity?
Legally enforced scarcity created by the danger of possession or cultivation anywhere it isn't legal, of course. DUH. Did you really need that spelled out?

Once weed is legal, it becomes a cash crop. The more crop on the market, the less cash each pound/bushel/cord/ton/name your unit is worth. Every fucking farmer in the country lives and dies by this truism and weed is absolutely no different. The only monkey wrench in the workings of Adam Smith's hand has been that of legal sanction and enforcement.

We already have hundreds of millions of square feet of marijuana under cultivation in Colorado; the idea that we'll never outstrip demand is simply ludicrous!
 

leaffan

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Legally enforced scarcity created by the danger of possession or cultivation anywhere it isn't legal, of course. DUH. Did you really need that spelled out?

Once weed is legal, it becomes a cash crop. The more crop on the market, the less cash each pound/bushel/cord/ton/name your unit is worth. Every fucking farmer in the country lives and dies by this truism and weed is absolutely no different. The only monkey wrench in the workings of Adam Smith's hand has been that of legal sanction and enforcement.

We already have hundreds of millions of square feet of marijuana under cultivation in Colorado; the idea that we'll never outstrip demand is simply ludicrous!
At the risk of another DUH reply...when do you think the hundreds of millions of square feet under cultivation will create a surplus?
Most of us are aware of supply and demand principles....You might find the history of sell prices in Canada interesting. It is not legal up here, yet we have been experiencing market saturation for the last six months. Prices have dropped significantly.
 
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