@Facade Thanks. Sure seems so.
@SavoirFaire Thanks for posting the definitive list of what makes a drug Schedule I. And clearly, by their own definition, MJ doesn’t belong to that class of drug.
@Aster That’s about how I felt as I watched and checked to verify the claims. At 67, the protection from dementia alone would be enough benefit for me.
@rOs Sadly, that is all too often so.
@CaptainHarley Me too. Hell, I’d vote for him but he won’t be in the primaries by the time they get to Massachusetts. At least he said something we all know is true, and he said it on a national stage. The clock is ticking till we introduce saner drug laws. Want budget savings? There’s an area where we can cut spending and HELP people instead of hurting them.
@Photosopher That comparison points to what’s driving the Government position. Which one is good for the profits of the corporate donors who pay to get the circus into Washington town?
@Dutchess_III Yeah, tobacco is a Schedule I on all three counts, but the industry donates sooooo much money. Remember when current House Speaker John Boehner got caught handing out big tobacco checks to congress members even as they were voting on regulations to control tobacco use?
@Russell_D_SpacePoet Yes, it is sad. Medical research is probably one of those areas where government involvement in a NASA like search for cures would be great. Big pharma gave up on even looking for cures after the financial bust of defeating polio. You make profits from lifelong medication to “control” a disease, not from a few pills that cure it. I don’t blame the big pharma companies for that. If I were a CEO there, I would look at it the same way. We just need to realize that, and act to cover the public interest where it and pharma profits collide.
@woodcutter Actually, I think you can legally grow hemp as long as it has no THC in it.
@Coloma Understood. :-)