{"id":181287,"date":"2016-08-11T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/11\/its-a-self-licking-ice-cream-cone-2\/"},"modified":"2016-08-11T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T23:04:00","slug":"its-a-self-licking-ice-cream-cone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/11\/its-a-self-licking-ice-cream-cone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Self Licking Ice Cream Cone"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DEA has decided to keep classifying Marijuana as a Schedule 1 Drug<\/a>, which means that they claim that it has no therapeutic value.<\/p>\n

It also means that a large portion of the DEA’s budget, the part that is driven by its anti-pot activities, remains safe.<\/p>\n

How convenient:<\/p>\n

For the fourth consecutive time, the Drug Enforcement Administration has denied a petition to lessen federal restrictions<\/a> on the use of marijuana.<\/span>

<\/span>While recreational marijuana use is legal in four states and D.C., and medical applications of the drug have been approved in many more, under federal law, it remains a Schedule 1 controlled substance<\/a>, which means it’s considered to have “no currently accepted medical use” and a “high potential for abuse.”<\/span>

<\/span>The gap between permissive state laws and a restrictive federal policy has become increasingly untenable in the minds of many doctors, patients, researchers, business owners and legislators.<\/span>

<\/span>For instance, last fall, a Brookings Institution report slammed the federal government<\/a> for “stifling medical research” in the area of marijuana policy. As a Schedule 1 drug, it’s much harder for researchers to work with marijuana than with many other controlled substances. The American Academy of Pediatrics has called on the government<\/a> to move marijuana into Schedule 2 to facilitate more research into medical uses.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps this determination should be made by an organization whose budget is not contingent on it remaining illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DEA has decided to keep classifying Marijuana as a Schedule 1 Drug, which means that they claim that it has no therapeutic value. It also means that a large portion of the DEA’s budget, the part that is driven by its anti-pot activities, remains safe. How convenient: For the fourth consecutive time, the Drug Enforcement …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1013,1041,1074,985,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-drugs","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-medical","category-regulation","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}