My 13 reasons for marijuana use post-stroke. If this isn't enough reasons that is precisely the reason you open it up to more research. But no, we have fucking idiots with their heads buried so deep they will never see the light of day.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/medical-marijuana-dea-nida-policy-000000095.html?nhp=1
Groups
fighting to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level were
disappointed with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s announcement on
Thursday that it will keep the plant in the same class of drugs as
heroin — despite a growing movement calling for its outright
legalization.
The
Marijuana Policy Project, a group dedicated to pot policy reform in the
U.S., for instance, is disappointed that the Obama administration will
not remove the drug’s Schedule I classification,
which is reserved for drugs with “no currently accepted medical use and
a high potential for abuse.” For context, cocaine is classified as a
Schedule II drug, as it can be used as a topical anesthetic.
Robert
J. Capecchi, director of federal policies for MPP, said the current
science clearly shows that there are medical benefits to marijuana use,
but federal hurdles make it difficult for researchers to meet the
criteria set forth by the federal government.
“They
are looking for very specific types of research that could be produced
in a replicable way,” Capecchi told Yahoo News. “Unfortunately, the
research that they’re looking for was difficult if not impossible to do
due to a variety of different barriers that the federal government
either has or had in place.”
According
to MPP, the National Institute on Drug Abuse has for decades blocked
researchers from looking into the potential benefits of marijuana use
and interfered with scientific studies that contradicted its
“exaggerated claims” about the drug’s harmfulness.
But
every smoke cloud has a silver lining. Along with the decision not the
reclassify marijuana, the DEA announced that it would expand the number
of places that are permitted to grow the drug to study its potential
medical uses.
“That’s
a small bit of good news and it gives us some hope,” Capecchi said. “It
should go a few steps toward getting that robust research that everyone
wants to see. … But the research could take years for any of this to
come to fruition.”
Up
until this point, scientists at the University of Mississippi were the
only researchers allowed to grow marijuana for this purpose.
Other
research institutions will have to go through several stages before
their scientists can start testing the drug. This process includes
applying for permission from the DEA, registering, setting up a
cultivation center and growing the crop.
“In
the meantime, while people are quite literally watching grass grow,
there are individuals and businesses across this country that are acting
in compliance with state law that are still under threat from federal
marijuana prohibition policies,” Capecchi continued.
But
every smoke cloud has a silver lining. Along with the decision not the
reclassify marijuana, the DEA announced that it would expand the number
of places that are permitted to grow the drug to study its potential
medical uses.
“That’s
a small bit of good news and it gives us some hope,” Capecchi said. “It
should go a few steps toward getting that robust research that everyone
wants to see. … But the research could take years for any of this to
come to fruition.”
Up
until this point, scientists at the University of Mississippi were the
only researchers allowed to grow marijuana for this purpose.
Other
research institutions will have to go through several stages before
their scientists can start testing the drug. This process includes
applying for permission from the DEA, registering, setting up a
cultivation center and growing the crop.
“In
the meantime, while people are quite literally watching grass grow,
there are individuals and businesses across this country that are acting
in compliance with state law that are still under threat from federal
marijuana prohibition policies,” Capecchi continued.
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