Cannabis has been found in hundreds of studies to offer wide-ranging health benefits. The US government has its own patent on these benefits (#6,630,507). At the same time Obama's Drug Enforcement Administration lists marijuana as Schedule I, which DEA defines as, "...drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Schedule I drugs are the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence."
The first US President since Lincoln to have admitted regularly smoking pot without harmful effect should order DEA to make nicotine Schedule I, since it clearly meets the definition, and remove cannabis entirely from scheduling.
In 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative Law Judge Francis Young determined: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care."
Young continued: "It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record."
We concur.
