Rescheduling Marijuana Would Leave Federal Firearms Prohibition Untouched

Interesting. I don't care either way about this. I don't ingest the drug and never have. I don't plan on ever taking it either.

My biggest problem with this whole thing is the definitions.

A schedule I drug, by definition, has NO medicinal value. At this point there are too many studies to count that show various medicinal effects of Marijuana and/or THC. We have doctors prescribing it FOR MEDICINAL USE.

How MJ remains a schedule I drug is truly beyond my ability to comprehend in a rational world. My only conclusion is that the people responsible are simply not rational.


And I am one of the rare few folks who can honestly say they have never tried the stuff in any form. There is zero self-interest for me here.

It will take an act of Congress to correct this.

A brief history of Congressional actions on pot.
The first national regulation was the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.
This act was overturned in 1969 in Leary v. United States, and was repealed by Congress the next year.
Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, which repealed the Marijuana Tax Act. Although the new law did officially prohibit the use of cannabis for any purpose, it also eliminated mandatory minimum sentences and reduced simple possession of all drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor.

Under the CSA cannabis was assigned a Schedule I classification, deemed to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use – thereby prohibiting even medical use of the drug. The classification has remained since the CSA was first signed into law, despite multiple efforts to reschedule. Other drugs in the Schedule I category include heroin, LSD, and peyote.