{"id":190585,"date":"2009-11-11T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/11\/time-to-go-long-on-fig-newtons\/"},"modified":"2009-11-11T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T04:22:00","slug":"time-to-go-long-on-fig-newtons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/11\/time-to-go-long-on-fig-newtons\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Go Long on Fig Newtons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Medical Association has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-marijuana-ama11-2009nov11,0,3003312.story\">reclassify marijuana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently a schedule 1 controlled substance, meaning dangerous, with no medical use, and the AMA, bowing to reality, has decided that it should be legal to at least test the stuff:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research.<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s largest physicians organization, with about 250,000 member doctors, the AMA has maintained since 1997 that marijuana should remain a Schedule I controlled substance, the most restrictive category, which also includes heroin and LSD.<\/p>\n<p>In changing its policy, the group said its goal was to clear the way to conduct clinical research, develop cannabis-based medicines and devise alternative ways to deliver the drug.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully, the progress towards sanity involving THC will continue, and perhaps, I could then go back to one of the activities of my college days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Medical Association has decided to reclassify marijuana. It is currently a schedule 1 controlled substance, meaning dangerous, with no medical use, and the AMA, bowing to reality, has decided that it should be legal to at least test the stuff: The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,972,1074,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-justice","category-medical","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190585"}],"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=190585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}