Legislative Bills

[time4me]

My point is that, in my understanding, a schedule I drug is considered to have NO MEDICAL VALUE, and if there is ANY medical value, it does not meet criteria for Schedule I, which would mean, in turn, that when ONE STATE finds medical value, the drug no longer meets criteria and should, in an intelligent and logical world, be rescheduled at ALL levels, beginning with the Feds.
But we are not dealing with logical intelligence within our government, are we?

[jamessr]

My point is that, in my understanding, a schedule I drug is considered to have NO MEDICAL VALUE, and if there is ANY medical value, it does not meet criteria for Schedule I, which would mean, in turn, that when ONE STATE finds medical value, the drug no longer meets criteria and should, in an intelligent and logical world, be rescheduled at ALL levels, beginning with the Feds.
But we are not dealing with logical intelligence within our government, are we?

I would have to say I myself at one time had the same personal feelings until, I took a closer in-depth analysis which gave me a different view point of the totality of the circumstances. Just one state does not effect the totality as a whole....majority is the rule.

Which logically translates into 51% of the states must be medical in order for the found medicinal value has a fighting chance to be rescheduled federally, the flip side of the same coin is found in congress reps. voting on the federal mmj bill before congress... once you understand how it all works in "context", it becomes less of a mind f**k on one's self..

In otherwords, the stress goes away.

Think in these terms, what ingredients does it take to bake a cake,,step by step, what happens when you miss some ingredients steps?? you end up with crap. and never get it correct until you use the correct steps. Then viola, your masterpiece is ready to consume..

Only 1 state has rescheduled cannabis...OREGON.

[jamessr]

A few states allow Dr.'s to prescribe heroin yet, you can not go to any state with your script and expect to be legal to use it...except the state which has legislated it under the practice of medicine. If, the majority of states legislated it's medicinal use, it would be rescheduled federally...not likely to happen but, is a good analogy analysis to use. As we have 15 states mmj and growing fast.

[killerweed420]

Only congress can reclassify cannabis because of the international treaties in place. No other fed has the authority to do so. Not even the president.

It is being left upto the states, look at Oregon, it is now a schedule 2 and meth is a schedule 1 now... they switched.imp:

Not exactly true. The DEA can and has reclassified drugs but its only a temporary reclassification until it goes before congress. The DEA just banned a list of drugs used in Spice and K2.
The fight will never be over. There are powerful segments of society that just do not believe that you own the rights to your own body.

[time4me]

Which means our only alternative is to change our government so "segments of society" are not allowed to interfere with our individual choices that cause no harm to others. But isn't that what our Constitution is for?

[jamessr]

Not exactly true. The DEA can and has reclassified drugs but its only a temporary reclassification until it goes before congress. The DEA just banned a list of drugs used in Spice and K2.
The fight will never be over. There are powerful segments of society that just do not believe that you own the rights to your own body.

Cannabis is the only drug congress has control over because of the international treaties in place...those drugs you mentioned are "SYNTHETIC" COMPOUNDED, which the U.S. agencies have authority over to reschedule...

Like I said, apples/apples, not orange/apple.

[jamessr]

Which means our only alternative is to change our government so "segments of society" are not allowed to interfere with our individual choices that cause no harm to others. But isn't that what our Constitution is for?

Think of our constitution as a business contract between a corp. and society...and since they wrote it, they have some majority say so in some aspects...when you change your view point to corp./contract law..things come to light real quick like.

[justpics]

James, not all drugs are marijuana, not all marijuana users are medical.

Spending twice what Nixon did as a percent of budget on law enforcment versus treatment is a step backwards, especially when the rhetoric is all about treatment.

[jamessr]

James, not all drugs are marijuana, not all marijuana users are medical.

Spending twice what Nixon did as a percent of budget on law enforcment versus treatment is a step backwards, especially when the rhetoric is all about treatment.

True but, I was trying to be specific about how cannabis is different in the way it is treated from other drugs in the big picture. And when you compare the amount of money spend in the war on drugs...you see the disparity your pointing out. Our policies are built on international law, along with our budgets..it is not just domestic. Which some forget in their equations.

RHETORIC remind me of save the children mumbo jumbo to attach our money to flow to politicians and then rape our kids by budget cuts. It's nothing but money shifting policies to fool the public abroad.

[killerweed420]

Would sure be nice of we returned to the constitution. But I don't see it happening. The repubs don't care any more about the constitution than the dems do. Maybe in a couple years we'll look like Tunisia.