I suspect that the government has decided to absorb everyone into the Borg of slavery by running games on people until they break into mental fatigue and have to go on welfare.

I also believe that cannabis can combat this bullshit and that is why the back room cowboys refuse to make it legal or change the Scheduling for it. They know this! Things add up after a period of time (50 years). My other NORMAL newsletter post under medical leads to the facts that cannabis relaxes PTSD and I agree. It should be legal for medical use for that reason alone IMHO...

San Diego, CA: The classification of cannabis and its organic compounds as Schedule I prohibited substances under federal law is scientifically indefensible, according to a review published online in The Open Neurology Journal.

Investigators at the University of California at San Diego and the University of California, Davis reviewed the results of several recent clinical trials assessing the safety and efficacy of inhaled or vaporized cannabis. They conclude: "Based on evidence currently available the Schedule I classification is not tenable; it is not accurate that cannabis has no medical value, or that information on safety is lacking."


Researchers added, "It is true cannabis has some abuse potential, but its profile more closely resembles drugs in Schedule III (where codeine and dronabinol are listed)."
Under federal law, Schedule I controlled substances are defined as possessing "a high potential for abuse, ... no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and there is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision."



Heroin and Methaqualone (Quaaludes) are examples of other Schedule I substances. Cocaine and methamphetamine are classified as schedule II controlled substances.


In 2011, the Obama administration - via the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) - formally denied a nine-year-old administrative petition filed by NORML and a coalition of public interest organizations calling on the agency to initiate hearings to reassess the present classification of marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance without any 'accepted medical use in treatment.'


In her denial of the petition, DEA administrator Michele Leonhart alleged: "[T]here are no adequate and well-controlled studies proving (marijuana's) efficacy; the drug is not accepted by qualified experts. ... At this time, the known risks of marijuana use have not been shown to be outweighed by specific benefits in well-controlled clinical trials that scientifically evaluate safety and efficacy."


Last month, Ms. Leonhart testified before Congress that she believed that heroin and marijuana posed similar threats to the public's health because, in her opinion, "all illegal drugs are bad."

For more information, please contact Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director, at: paul@norml.org. Full text of the study, "Medical Marijuana: Clearing Away the Smoke," is available online at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358713/.

[Bi0hazard]

Great post!

[TB Gardens]

Wow, just reading that last paragraph made me laugh. God damn this country is so fucked. Fuck you mrs leonhart, fuck you.

Science? Who needs science, anyway? They should sponsor a study to disprove the real science.

[fungzyme]

Originally Posted by TB Gardens

Wow, just reading that last paragraph made me laugh. God damn this country is so fucked. Fuck you mrs leonhart, fuck you.

If reading it made you laugh, watching it will probably make you cry... this cretin leads our Drug Enforcement Agency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrHec...eature=related

then there's this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFC2IZe04EY

[DoobieDuck]

Great post BrnCow I hope more Peeps find it. Yes..something we've said all along. DD

no credible studies......hhhmmm

funny how the dea controls who is able to do studies on Schedule I cont. sub. and when a credible source, Judge F. Young, has an opinion that differs from the dea's opinion they just ignore it.

dea double talk at its finest.

[Hydro-Soil]

Such bullshit.

She looks like she's on heavy prescription drugs, she evades the questions by trying to give spin. Then she says that the efficacy of marijuana is between that cancer patient and his doctor? What the fuck???

In case you missed it... someone added the rest of the text he was reading.

A lot of comments from people pissed that Cohen was cut-off. FYI -- Here is the rest of what he was reading:

"The legalization movement is not simply a harmless academic exercise. The mortal danger of thinking that marijuana is "medicine" was graphically illustrated by a story from California. In the spring of 2004, Irma Perez was "in the throes of her first experience with the drug Ecstasy ... when, after taking one Ecstasy tablet, she became ill and told friends that she felt like she was ..."going to die"... Two teenage acquaintances did not seek medical care and instead tried to get Perez to smoke marijuana. When that failed due to her seizures, the friends tried to force-feed marijuana leaves to her, "apparently because [they] knew that drug is sometimes used to treat cancer patients." Irma Perez lost consciousness and died a few days later when she was taken off life support. She was 14 years old."

What the F' does that have to do with the medicinal efficacy of cannabis?


And people think standing govt is a good thing. LOL

Stay Safe!

edit: that was for the second video linked above...

Originally Posted by fungzyme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFC2IZe04EY

Thanks Fungzyme!

[mr.brunch]

(politician with fingers in ears)
"la la la not listening cant hear you la la la"

[Ranger]

our whole government is broken so don't expect the DEA/FDA to be any better, hell they work for big pharma so enough said.

when the system collapses and it will, this kind of crap will be gone so keep hope alive it's coming soon by the way it looks.