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DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says
#23924242 - 12/13/16 08:49 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/The-DEA-refuted-its-own-misconceptions-about-pot-10786964.php
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By Bob Egelko Updated 12:15 pm, Sunday, December 11, 2016

Law enforcement officer Paul Budrow, right, reads a copy of High Times magazine, as officer Wray Graham looks on, while waiting to be deployed to a marijuana patch near Ukiah, Calif., Tuesday Sept. 22, 1998. They read the magazine to keep up on the drug culture. Officers come from across the state to spend eight weeks with the multi-agency task force called CAMP - the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting. In camouflage, they swoop onto hillsides from helicopters and use machetes to hack down hundreds of marijuana plants. (AP Photo/George Nikitin)
Defending the government’s classification of marijuana as one of the most dangerous drugs, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration declares on its website that pot causes mental illness and lung cancer and leads youths to heroin and cocaine.
But an advocacy group says the DEA, in a legal filing in August, said it found no evidence to support any of those conclusions. The group, Americans for Safe Access, has asked the agency to remove discredited claims from its Web page.
“We have taken this action to stop the DEA’s relentless campaign of misinformation about the health risks of medical cannabis,” said Menlo Park attorney Vickie Feeman, who represents Americans for Safe Access. She said the agency’s public statements, and its “refusal to ... acknowledge the scientifically proven benefits of medical cannabis,” are harming patients around the country.
“This is something President Obama can correct before he leaves office,” the group said in a statement. It indicated it would file suit if the agency refuses to remove the statements. The DEA declined to comment.
The agency, part of the Justice Department, classifies marijuana, along with heroin, LSD and ecstasy, as dangerous drugs with a high potential for abuse and no legitimate medical use, making possession a crime under federal law. Proposals to shift marijuana into the same classification as methamphetamine and cocaine, which can be legally prescribed, have been rejected by successive administrations, most recently by the Obama administration in August.
In a petition to the DEA last Monday, Americans for Safe Access said the agency’s website contains more than two dozen statements about marijuana that may have had some scientific support when they were first posted years ago but are no longer credible. They include assertions that:
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•“Marijuana use can worsen depression and lead to more serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and even suicide.”
•According to one study, “smoking one cannabis cigarette increases the chances of developing lung cancer by as much as an entire packet of 20 cigarettes.”
•Youngsters who use marijuana are “15 times more likely to use heroin later in life.”
The advocacy group said the DEA itself undermined each of those statements in August in a filing in which the agency refused to reclassify marijuana but rejected some previous misconceptions.
In that filing, the agency said numerous studies showed that marijuana users were no more likely than nonusers to suffer mental illness. It also said that smoking marijuana could cause health problems but that recent studies have found little evidence of any connection with lung cancer. And it said research “does not support a direct causal relationship between regular marijuana use and other illicit drug use.” Related Stories
Meanwhile, the advocacy group said, the DEA has kept its earlier contradictory statements on its website, where they may influence members of Congress who are considering legislation to reclassify marijuana and bar federal interference with states that allow medical use of the drug.
For example, the petition said, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said at a June 2015 hearing of the Senate Drug Caucus that marijuana is “a gateway drug” whose users “go on to other things.”
Asked whether Feinstein still holds that view, spokesman Ross Townsend said Friday that the senator has introduced a bill to expand medical marijuana research but “still has concerns about negative effects of recreational use,” which California voters legalized last month.
Feinstein “is particularly concerned about the proliferation of stoned drivers, increased youth access to marijuana and the effects of increasingly high THC levels,” Townsend said, referring to the ingredient that causes most of marijuana’s psychological effects.
DEA, gotta wonder if their agents actually believe that horse shit.
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Re: DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says [Re: 404] 1
#23924402 - 12/13/16 09:47 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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DEA knows marijuana and other drugs have medicinal properties the question is do the higher ups think society is ready for full out legalization.
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Atreyu
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Re: DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says [Re: tdubz] 2
#23924505 - 12/13/16 10:20 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Feinstein needs to get puddled with a monsoon of L
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Re: DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says [Re: Atreyu]
#23924840 - 12/14/16 01:42 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Proposals to shift marijuana into the same classification as methamphetamine and cocaine, which can be legally prescribed, have been rejected by successive administrations, most recently by the Obama administration in August.
since when can you get medicinal cocaine and meth?
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larry.fisherman
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Re: DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says [Re: Ogla]
#23924848 - 12/14/16 01:47 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm not sure about cocaine but desoxyn is pharmaceutical meth.
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howsyournaggerdoin
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Re: DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says [Re: larry.fisherman]
#23924890 - 12/14/16 02:39 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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The DEA has interest in keeping cannabis schedule 1 because their funding depends on making as many drug busts as possible. Unless they are put under immense pressure they wont do anything
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Re: DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says [Re: howsyournaggerdoin]
#23924975 - 12/14/16 04:58 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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cocaine is schedule II. you can get it prescribed. I only personally know of one person who had it prescribed to them in the form of eye drops. it was to treat the pain associated with flash burn. flash burn is what happens when you try and weld without eye protection.
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Re: DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says [Re: trscstghst]
#23924992 - 12/14/16 05:13 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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cocaine is sometimes used as topical anesthetic but never for its CNS effects. At least in a medical setting
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Re: DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says [Re: Atreyu]
#23925009 - 12/14/16 05:20 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Atreyu said: Feinstein needs to get puddled with a monsoon of L
I don't think Feinstein has a lot of sense or maybe he just lacks integrity. He could probably benefit from lsd. However, dosing someone without their knowledge or consent is wrong, especially how it seems you'd have it done.
A high dose experience of anything can be terrifying and seem endless even if the person takes it intentionally and knows it's safe. What you describe seems to be nothing short of psychological torture with probable long lasting negative effects on his psyche.
Besides, he would be unlikely to benefit from it personally or have a changed perception of drugs under those circumstances.
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Atreyu
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Re: DEA dismissed its own misconceptions about pot, group says [Re: Hobbyist]
#23925330 - 12/14/16 09:22 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Feinstein is a women, if you know a little bit about her you'll find her to be pretty awful person. Also, I 100% would not give a Fuck.


Edited by Atreyu (12/14/16 09:54 AM)
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