DEA Plans to Soon Decide Whether to Reschedule Marijuana to Acknowledge Medicinal Benefits
For decades, marijuana has been classified as a Schedule 1 drug, which means it has no accepted medical use.
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Border Patrol Agents Find 2,500 Pounds of Marijuana Stuffed inside Carrots
A drug-sniffing dog detected marijuana in a tractor-trailer that was crossing the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge.
Open Letter to DEA Chief: It’s Not Time to Resign – Yet – of Marijuana Remarks
When I heard you say recently that you thought medical marijuana was a “joke,” I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Pressure Mounts for Resignation of DEA Chief After Comments About Marijuana
The pressure is mounting for President Obama to fire the head of the DEA after his remarks dismissing medical marijuana as a “joke.”
Congressman Calls for Resignation of DEA Chief Over Marijuana Remarks
Rep. Early Blumenauer called for the resignation Wednesday of the acting DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg for saying it’s a “joke” to suggest that marijuana has medicinal benefits.
Marijuana Use and Disorders Double
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Marijuana use has doubled in the last decade, and with that has come a doubling in the use disorders associated with it, according to a recent medical study by a Columbia University epidemiologist published this week in The Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry and in Medscape Medical News. Dr. Deborah Hasin reported…
Parker: Marijuana Use and Disorders Double
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Marijuana use has doubled in the last decade, and with that has come a doubling in the use disorders associated with it, according to…
Bernie Sanders to Call for Marijuana Being Removed from DEA’s Schedule of Controlled Substances
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Democratic candidate for president Bernie Sanders plans to call for marijuana being removed from the DEA’s schedule of controlled substances in an effort to legalize pot, the Washington Post reports. Such a move would give states more control over marijuana. In some states, recreational marijuana is legal. In others, medicinal marijuana…