[jump /injack]

From the beginning of the Cannabis embargo it has been a way to suppress a plant that is and has been used for over a thousand years for commerce, religion and medicine. There are thousands of uses for hemp but all were suppressed for political, financial and racist uses by the Federal Government. Hemp was used and has been used for news paper, a huge business using wood pulp and hemp up until the 1930’s but with a favor of a new law and the regulations to go along with it hemp was abolished for those that controlled the newspaper business, those in the News Paper business made millions and millions of dollars and users of cannabis went to prison for years. It was and still is a crime against the American People and the only thing stopping the legalization of hemp is politicians taking money from the guards unions of the United States and the Lawyers Guilds of the United States who represent you in court as Judges, Prosecutors, bailiffs and the whole legal profession that make money off of your jailed misery. Whether Democrat or Republican vote them out, they don’t care if its the children are helped by cannabis or service men with issues caused by war, they screw you for the money given by those that rely of the present laws and your incarcerated misery for their fee’s.

DEA Letter Reveals Marijuana's Schedule I Could Be Downgraded in 2016
By Mike Adams · Wed Apr 06, 2016

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While the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has spent decades spewing the swill of prohibitionists in an effort to keep the cannabis plant confined to its Schedule I classification under the Controlled Substances Act, documents obtained by the Huffington Post indicate that the agency may finally be prepared to reschedule the herb.

In response to a letter submitted last year by Senator Elizabeth Warren and seven other lawmakers calling for the federal government to unleash some of the restrictions that continue to make it difficult to study the medicinal benefits of the cannabis plant, the DEA has revealed that it will make a decision on whether to reschedule marijuana before the end of summer 2016.

“DEA understands the widespread interest in the prompt resolution to these petitions and hopes to release its determination in the first half of 2016,” the 25-page document reads.

Although the DEA’s letter, which is signed by acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg, does not suggest the inevitability of a Schedule downgrade, there is now more pressure than ever before for the agency to deliver a favorable result on the issue.

In addition to a legion of federal lawmakers demanding the Schedule downgrade of a substance that millions of Americans are now permitted under state law to use for medical purposes, there has been a major push over the past few months for President Obama to initiate the rescheduling process before he leaves the White House.

Most recently, hundreds of cannabis advocates protested in the streets of the nation’s capital with a 50-foot inflatable joint branded with the message “Obama, Reschedule Cannabis Now.” However, since the beginning of 2016, President Obama has maintained that he has no plans to get into marijuana reform before the end of his term.

Nevertheless, the latest word from the DEA may suggest that big changes are on the horizon.

According to the letter, the agency will take into consideration the latest findings from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stemming from the agency’s eight-factor analysis of the medical and scientific evidence supporting cannabis as a safe and effective drug. But the DEA made no mention as to whether the FDA review was in favor or against rescheduling.

In 2014, the FDA announced that it would conduct a full appraisal of the cannabis plant to evaluate whether it should be reclassified under a lesser Schedule. The agency, which currently “has not approved marijuana as a safe and effective drug,” did not give any indication how long the process would take, only that the agency would issue a final scheduling proposal after the assessment was complete. This verdict will be crucial in the DEA’s upcoming decision.

As Matt Ferner of the Huffington Post points out, this is not the first time the DEA has considered bumping marijuana from the same Schedule classification as heroin. Unfortunately, the nation’s leading drug enforcers have always decided that it continues to be in the best interest of public safety for marijuana to maintain its Schedule I status.

[aridbud]

The last paragraph says it all.....

I hate prefaces starting with "Unfortunately...."

[vapeorbong]

Cannabis should be DE-classified, NOT RE-classified

schedule will 2 mean even more Gov. control and regulation

[armedoldhippy]

their feet are to the fire now. if they do not RE-classify, it is going to be DE-classified in the next couple of years. when weed is federally OK, a bunch of those illiterate cocksuckers are going to have to find real jobs. what does a career of ruining peoples lives enforcing a ruinous hypocritical prohibition qualify you for? unemployment... assholes...

[Skip]

It seems to me with all the regulations and taxes now being imposed upon marijuana growing, distribution and sales, it seems that all they're doing is pushing more and more people onto the ever growing Black Market. And rescheduling to any other category will just mean more ppl not opting into the new industrialization of cannabis.

[jump /injack]

Originally Posted by Skip

It seems to me with all the regulations and taxes now being imposed upon marijuana growing, distribution and sales, it seems that all they're doing is pushing more and more people onto the ever growing Black Market. And rescheduling to any other category will just mean more ppl not opting into the new industrialization of cannabis.

Hemp became a major business after the American Revolution. For a long time England had embargoed the raising of hemp in the America's because the English Empire in order to set the price forbade the growing of Hemp. [hemp was used in ship's rigging's and was a necessity of war] One of the first things that George Washington did was legalize the growing of hemp in the America's. It seems to me that 'Government' is becoming more like a vampire every day, more taxes, more onerous laws for the wealthy, more cozy deals to enrich politicians and more laws to send you to prison if you step out of line, Government sucks the life's blood out of its people. Government out of control is more dangerous than an armed thug or dangerous animal, governments kill in the millions with a bullet in the head or starvation. There was not one man who signed the Declaration of Independence who trusted a Government, you can tell by reading the document, even Obama complained that the Constitution was what Government couldn't do, there was a very good reason for that, no Government should be trusted, ever; none of the signers did.

[paper thorn]

I hate that so many people who like cannabis are trying to get it moved to Schedule 2 of the Controlled Substances Act.

I guess to many it seems like schedule 1 is the worst, after all right there with heroin, so schedule 2 must be better, right.

Who here knows what schedule 2 means??? Raise your hand. Hmmm, not many hands.

Anyway, pot will be in good company on schedule 2 right along with cocaine and speed. Yep meth and valium too. Heck, some of the best dope is schedule 2.

That's why they are schedule 2. Because they need to be so closely regulated so they don't end up "on the street."

Old hippies may remember back in the day, before the CSA, how you could score speed, pharmaceutical speed, everywhere. Then the dope dealers dried up and crystal meth filled the void. Still suffering the effects of that move in this country, but the number of 'speed freaks' as they were known went waay down because you couldn't find those neat little pills anymore.

Schedule 2 requires a prescription from a doctor, not a rec from a pot doc. Flowers will be even more illegal than they are now. pills and patches brother, good times..., but those big cultivation companies don't care, they'll make their money.

Yep, I can see it now, a group of peeps sitting around saying "wow man, this patch rocks, let's all put one on and listen to some black sabbath man.

All drugs should be scheduled based on how many deaths per year they cause

..and then cannabis would be down there with angel farts, butterfly kisses and right crosses from 3 day old babies as one of the most safest things around.

[mojave green]

Well, there is the cash only situation. Larger and larger amounts. Colorado Mj $ are pretty high. That's a lot of unregulated money.