Cannabis could be legalized in two strokes of a pen

**Ferre**

This is from a comment from someone named mutatron on the website Digg and I found it quite an important thing to know, and at the same time wondered why an organisation like NORML, which is populated with lawyers, have not organised a campaign to delete "marihuana" and THC from the CSA schedule.

Here's the comment I found on Digg...

Pepper · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:41 am Post subject:

NORML did try to take cannabis off of schedule I but failed. This was the case where the DEA's own administrative law judge wrote ,"Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man."

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/YOUNG/index.html

Everytime it is studied the conclusion is the same. Cannabis is improperly classified and should be decriminalized.
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**Ferre** · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject:

That leaves me with two questions, for one, why did they fail, and second, why not try again?

For all I know it is relatively simple to prove that it isn't such a harmful substance, certainly not compared to coffee and lots of other legal 'drugs' and it is also quite simple to prove the medicinal benefits.
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john s revealer · Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:44 am Post subject:

The answer is simple. MONEY. Cannabis prohibition is the lynch pin of the drug war . You change its status and the whole thing falls apart for thr prohibitionist. And a lot of bueraucrats lose thier jobs.
Barry McCafferty and John Walters have both stated publicly that pro legilisers are not entitled to their facts. And so it goes.
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David · Bard Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 1261

Like sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting, la la la, drugs are bad, drugs are bad. Just to keep their face, they're scared of the dam breaking and the flood gate opening. If they are proved wrong on one thing they could be wrong on others and then pop goes the pharmaceutical companies, at present they have the monopoly on the publics health.