Quote Originally Posted by angry nomad
Of course elected officials can. Congress are the lawmakers, our state and federal congress can repeal laws also.

The DEA and Surgeon General do not make laws, so how could they change them?
<sigh> Like I said.... do your homework. Go back to about 1963 when Coke, Heroin, MJ and a bunch of other "street" drugs were classified as having *no medicinal value* and no more research could be done on them. The classification system was set up so that individual drugs could have their classification changed without literally requiring an act of congress.

The DEA and Surgen General have to change the clasification of MJ *BEFORE* it can be legalized.