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    #23837534 - 11/16/16 01:31 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

-John D. Ehrlichman (1994)
Nixon's chief domestic policy advisor






I am not a moderate. On this issue I do not accept compromise. I am an extremist, a hardline anti-prohibitionist. This country was founded upon the notion that we all have the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Does the right to life mean simply the right to remain breathing under the weight of oppression? I don't think so, what is life without the freedom to live according to your own dreams, aspirations, and moral code? Surely any action that does no harm to another is within your rights. Your liberty to choose the means of pursuing your happiness should be under no bounds except that. Do no harm to others, infringe upon the rights of no others, and you are free live any way you choose. That is what freedom is. That is liberty. So long as our laws do not reflect that this country has failed to live up to its founding creed.

If my right as an adult to peacefully and responsibly, in the privacy of my home, alter my own consciousness is not protected by life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness I do not know what is. If farmers can not grow any crop they choose they are not free. If I can go to jail for picking wild mushrooms from cow fields in Florida, or cacti from the Arizona desert, then I am not free.

The responsible use of recreational drugs does not affect anyone but the user. Smoking Marijuana, or Heroin, PCP, Crack, ect... is morally no different from drinking alcohol. Yes, some drugs can be highly addicting and destructive, but so can alcohol, cigarettes, fast cars, and women...

Let us assume for a moment, as ridiculous as it may sound, that recreational drug use is not an acceptable pursuit of happiness, but alcohol is somehow different... and recreational drug prohibition is therefore not an infringement upon personal liberty. Even assuming that, prohibition is still in violation of our most basic right. The right to life. Surely it encompasses the right to use medicines that preserve and improve your life, right? Whether that be the right to take ibuprofen to cure a head ache, cannabis oils to cure seizures, or psychedelics to cure depression, we all have the right to use medicine.

And I am hard pressed to think of any drug used recreationally that has no medical value. The closest I can think of is tobacco, but tobacco has been used for millennia by Native American people for medicinal and spiritual purposes. I wont discount it. Perhaps the cure for cancer will be found in a compound derived from tobacco, but we will never know if the DEA makes tobacco schedule 1. A categorization that would make research illegal, labeling it as having no medical value and a high potential for abuse. Of course they would never do that, the money they get from the tobacco lobby is a big part of why the far more medicinal plant, marijuana, is schedule 1, and tobacco is sold in every gas station and grocery store.

Many of the drugs listed as schedule 1 by the DEA have therapeutic and medicinal benefits. Marijuana, Psilocybin Mushrooms, and Peyote, have all been used medicinally for much longer than our country has existed. Since they are listed as schedule 1 it is impossible for scientists to even study the overwhelming likelihood that thousands and thousands of years of medical/spiritual practices were not wrong. LSD and MDMA both were being studied by psychiatrists, with much success, before that research was terminated and the drugs criminalized. The DEA has zero interest in public health. They exist only to oppress poor, minority, dissenting communities, and to stomp out competition to the pharmaceutical, alcohol, and tobacco industries.

I am writing this not just because I am outraged that these medicines have been taken from us for so long. There is more urgency to this today. Because they are trying to do it again with an herb called Kratom. It is a great medicine, and very safe. The DEA is trying to make it Schedule 1. There is currently an open public comment period on the scheduling of Kratom that lasts until December 1. Here is a copy of the letter I am sending them. I urge you all to write as well, even if it is just to say, "Don't make plants illegal, and reschedule all of the medicines that are currently schedule 1."

If you're thinking, "there's no way they'll care what I say," maybe you're right, but the ban was originally scheduled to take effect October 1st. Then more than 130,000 people signed a petition, and got their members of congress to sign a letter asking the DEA to delay this rash decision. Amazingly they listened. As far as I know it is unprecedented for the DEA to back down because of public outcry. We need to keep the pressure on them. With a new administration on the horizon, and our country's drug laws in limbo, we need now more than ever to show them that we will no longer tolerate criminalizing the peaceful use of drugs/medicines.







Dear DEA,

I would like to share my experiences with the herb Kratom with you. It was first introduced to me as a recreational substance. I was looking for an alternative social lubricant to alcohol so I bought an ounce of high quality Kratom, about 10 doses. I had that ounce for more than two years. In my opinion, as a recreational substance, kratom has little value. Eating 2-5 grams of powdered leaf is no easy task and the reward is minimal compared to most other drugs. Even though I had it in my possession for two years, after initially trying it out a few times, I did not use it to get high.

In June of this year I was involved in an accident that left me hospitalized with a broken ankle, femur, and spine. By the time I recovered enough to walk I had developed a dependency to the pharmaceutical opiates I was prescribed. Quitting an opiate habit is not easy. When the doctors cut me off I could not sleep without the pills. I felt shaky, sick, both physically and mentally drained. I don't think I experienced even 1/10th of the withdrawals a more serious opiate addict would go through, but it was too much for me. I found some people who had some pills. Without the script anymore I had to make them last, so I shot them up using an insulin syringe. When I couldn't find pills I found some people with black tar heroin that I smoked. This went on for awhile, stopping then going back, then stopping, and going back again.

If you think my story is an anomaly, it is not. The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, conducted and published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, estimated that there were 2.1 million Americans abusing prescription opiates and 467,000 heroin addicts, nearly double the number of heroin addicts estimated by the survey in 2005. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2010 alone there were 13,652 accidental deaths from prescription opiates, and 2,789 fatal heroin overdoses. In this context, the fact that the DEA sites "15 kratom-related deaths between 2014 and 2016," as reason for making the plant schedule 1, seems absurd. And becomes even more absurd when it is realized that all of those deaths involved other drugs. There has never been a single documented case of fatal overdose from kratom alone. I will repeat that, Kratom alone has never killed anyone. Compare that to the 16,441 deaths from pharmaceutical opiates and heroin in just one year, and explain to me how it is that you think kratom is the problem.

Kratom helped me quit opiates. Kratom made the withdrawals more manageable. I might have been able to quit without Kratom, but I don't think I would have stayed off it. I still have considerable pain from my back injury. Not all the time, but some days it can be debilitating. I would have likely turned back to opiates, but instead I use Kratom a few times a week to manage this chronic pain. Kratom is as excellent a pain reliever as there is. It is far less narcotic/intoxicating than opiates, even low dose opiates. I can eat a couple grams of kratom and go about my day feeling sober, healthy, and without pain. On top of these benefits, it is nowhere near as addictive as opiates. I can take kratom many days in a row and then stop with no ill effects. Conversely, if I had 3 Oxycodone I would probably just eat the first, but then snort the second... and by the time I was looking at my third and final pill I would be sorely tempted to inject it. I have never felt like a fiend for Kratom.

Please do not take this vital medicine from me, the thousands of other people who it has helped, and the millions it could help in the future. Kratom needs to be promoted not prohibited. The only logical reason you could possibly have for making Kratom schedule 1 is to prevent it from competing against the pharmaceutical opiates. This is absolutely shameful. Kratom has great medicinal benefits, and a low potential for abuse. Just like a number of other drugs you have listed as schedule 1. Why are you prohibiting research into these potentially useful substances? Why prohibit medical research into Any substance?

Do away entirely with the classification of schedule 1 drugs. Represent the American people, not the pharmaceutical drug lobby.

Sincerely,
Matthew M. Culbertson
Breckenridge, Colorado





Submit electronic comments here,
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DEA-2016-0015-0006


Electronic comments: The Drug Enforcement Administration encourages that all comments be submitted electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal, which provides the ability to type short comments directly into the comment field on the Web page or attach a file for lengthier comments. Please go to http://www.regulations.gov and follow the online instructions at that site for submitting comments. Upon completion of your submission, you will receive a Comment Tracking Number for your comment. Please be aware that submitted comments are not instantaneously available for public view on Regulations.gov. If you have Start Printed Page 70653received a Comment Tracking Number, your comment has been successfully submitted and there is no need to resubmit the same comment.

Paper comments: Paper comments that duplicate the electronic submission are not necessary and are discouraged. Should you wish to mail a paper comment in lieu of an electronic comment, it should be sent via regular or express mail to: Drug Enforcement Administration, Attn: DEA Federal Register Representative/ODW, 8701 Morrissette Drive, Springfield, Virginia 22152.







We are living in a state of mass incarceration on a scale the world has never seen before. This neo-Jim Crow war on the American People is the kind of shit future generations will look back on and say, "how could they tolerate such evil?" The same way we look back at the original Jim Crow era of segregation and lynchings.


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