Drug Enforcement Administration Will Not Call for Reclassifying Marijuana

[Calculating]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/legal-pot/drug-enforcement-administration-will-not-call-reclassifying-marijuana-n628131

"This decision isn't based on danger. This decision is based on whether marijuana, as determined by the FDA, is a safe and effective medicine," he said, "and it's not."

This is honestly getting silly. By the perverted logic being used by the DEA, anything which isn't an FDA approved medicine could be stuck in schedule 1 and arbitrarily banned. The DEA even admits that the classification isn't about danger. It's about the lack of proof backing up the medicinal value of the plant. HELLO? By that logic why isn't nicotine a schedule 1 drug? No medical uses and kills hundreds of thousands per year. I'm convinced that the DEA is simply being paid off by big pharma, and big pharma don't like seeing prescriptions drop by 25% in MMJ states.

Soon we might see over half of all states with legal mj or medical mj. Over 55% of the public supports legal recreational use. What in the HELL is it ever gonna take for the DEA to abandon their FLAT EARTHER approach to regulating this drug>?

Stuff like this makes me realize that those Bundy clan jerks were right. Not for what they were protesting, but their overall point is correct. The federal alphabet agencies are utterly corrupt, out of control and lack accountability.

[truebluegreen]

1. Of course they won't.

Dawg Forbid they have to perform a socially beneficial function.

[PatrickforO]

2. Wow...this decision is BULL SHIT.

Nothing but a big, giant, 'pants on fire' lie pile of stinking crap.

[MohRokTah]

3. If they reclassify Cannabis, they will have to lay off over 60% of their staff.

Occam's Razor. The simplest answer is they want to save their cushy jobs. Cannabis people tend to be non-violent, so DEA agents have an easy way to justify their jobs existing.

[Calculating]

4. By their logic

Why are alcohol and tobacco not schedule 1? Both have no accepted medical uses, are highly addictive and dependence forming, and kills countless people every year. Oh yeah, there is no logic. The DEA is a corrupt tyrannical organization. The end.