Why is marijuana still a schedule 1 drug?

glygtvhjhkjkkjlj wrote:

Schedule 1 drugs are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. They are also the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence.

Seems like there is an accepted medical use of marijuana, and not really a high potential for abuse. I used to smoke weed for a while then I stopped cold turkey and I was fine, no withdrawal experienced. Alcohol or caffeine or sugar has much worse health consequences regarding withdrawal than weed and its not regulated at all.

Also, what's the point of voting for Democrats if they don't do the one thing people vote for them to do, which is to legalize weed, or at the very least, remove it as a schedule 1 drug and let the states decide what to do with it, as the founding fathers intended. Fentanyl is a schedule 2 drug to show how little you should trust what the government has to say about anything health related.

glygtvhjhkjkkjlj wrote:

Schedule 1 drugs are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. They are also the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence.

Seems like there is an accepted medical use of marijuana, and not really a high potential for abuse. I used to smoke weed for a while then I stopped cold turkey and I was fine, no withdrawal experienced. Alcohol or caffeine or sugar has much worse health consequences regarding withdrawal than weed and its not regulated at all.

Also, what's the point of voting for Democrats if they don't do the one thing people vote for them to do, which is to legalize weed, or at the very least, remove it as a schedule 1 drug and let the states decide what to do with it, as the founding fathers intended. Fentanyl is a schedule 2 drug to show how little you should trust what the government has to say about anything health related.

glygtvhjhkjkkjlj wrote:

Schedule 1 drugs are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. They are also the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence.

Seems like there is an accepted medical use of marijuana, and not really a high potential for abuse. I used to smoke weed for a while then I stopped cold turkey and I was fine, no withdrawal experienced. Alcohol or caffeine or sugar has much worse health consequences regarding withdrawal than weed and its not regulated at all.

Also, what's the point of voting for Democrats if they don't do the one thing people vote for them to do, which is to legalize weed, or at the very least, remove it as a schedule 1 drug and let the states decide what to do with it, as the founding fathers intended. Fentanyl is a schedule 2 drug to show how little you should trust what the government has to say about anything health related.

samcallan wrote:

stateroftheoblivious wrote:

Marijuana and Cocaine are schedule 1 drugs because the Republicans wanted, and did, use draconian drug laws to attack two Democratic voting blocks.

Cocaine on the black community and marijuana on the hippy community.

The Republicans wanted to turn them into felons who could not vote and impoverish their communities to make them less likely to vote. And it worked. Mitch McConnell won his first senate race by 5,300 votes in a state where almost 100,000 people couldn't vote.

In fact, at least 6 senate races were flipped to the Republicans because of the number of people who couldn't vote.

Keeping marijuana and cocaine as schedule 1 drugs is just one weapon in the Republican voter suppression arsenal.

On average about 1.5% of the population can't vote.

But it is almost 5% among the black community. By design.

Link:www.sentencingproject.org/reports/lock...

I think you are drawing conclusions here that are a stretch. Yes, pot's addition was against the left, but it is not like Democrats who could have changed the law in the mid 70s or under Obama did anything.

Most of the harsh drug sentencing laws passed with overwhelming Democrat support and the support of inner city mayors even the ones that set harsher penalties for crack. Biden was the leading proponent but folks like Charlie Rangel were behind it. Inner city Black mayors were for it.

Link:www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-an...

glygtvhjhkjkkjlj wrote:

Schedule 1 drugs are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. They are also the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence.

Seems like there is an accepted medical use of marijuana, and not really a high potential for abuse. I used to smoke weed for a while then I stopped cold turkey and I was fine, no withdrawal experienced. Alcohol or caffeine or sugar has much worse health consequences regarding withdrawal than weed and its not regulated at all.

Also, what's the point of voting for Democrats if they don't do the one thing people vote for them to do, which is to legalize weed, or at the very least, remove it as a schedule 1 drug and let the states decide what to do with it, as the founding fathers intended. Fentanyl is a schedule 2 drug to show how little you should trust what the government has to say about anything health related.