The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear an appeal from medical marijuana advocacy groups who had challenged the DEA’s decision to maintain marijuana’s status as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, the category reserved for the most dangerous substances.
The court denied in summary order a petition for a writ of certiorari from the groups, led by Americans for Safe Access, which had sought Supreme Court review of a DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding the DEA’s ruling that a change in marijuana’s classification required the Food and Drug Administration’s recognition of acceptable medical uses for the drugs.
Advocates of rescheduling marijuana have been trying to do so for more than four decades, but have been thwarted by DEA delays and intransigence. This was the third formal rescheduling effort to be blocked by DEA decision making.
Schedule I drugs are deemed to have no acceptable medical uses and a high potential for abuse. Other Schedule I drugs include LSD, MDMA, and heroin. Despite the fact that there is an ever-increasing mountain of research detailing marijuana medicinal effects and despite the fact that 20 states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, the DEA continues to insist that it cannot be down-scheduled.
Joe Elford, lead attorney on the case for Americans for Safe Access, told Law360 that the Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari was in line with its reluctance to overturn lower court and administrative decisions on medical marijuana.
"It’s disappointing, but not altogether surprising," he said.
A fourth effort to reclassify marijuana led by the governors of the medical marijuana states of Rhode Island and Washington was filed in 2011 and is still awaiting action…
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/oct/07/us_supreme_court_rejects_marijua
Sanjay Gupta needs to get involved. When he decided to champion medical marijuana on CNN he did more than anyone else to change the public opinion of marijuana. Thanks to Dr. Gupta reasonable people mainly consider weed to be a harmless vice and beneficial for many medical conditions.
And the fight with these morons continues . Think I’ll go spark up a fatty to toast their failure in the WoD! :nannah:
This decision comes as no big surprise!!! I wonder if the Supreme Court Justices had their balls rubbed by Big Tobacco, Big Liquor and Big Pharma to help them in making their decision to
reject the reclassification of Cannabis?? :Smokey: :smokin: :Smokey: :smokin:
I don’t see much benefit in allowing the feds to legalize weed,
First thing they would do is begin collecting a list of all the folks who had a MM card.
I already chewed out my bro for getting his card and his was state govt. I hate to see the fed bastards with a
list of people they wanna crap on and I will be happy enough to see MM as a state
legalized option as that is enough to free up the industry.
I remember the same argument for a federal concealed carry permit, who wants those gun-haters having a list?
I believe in the next 25 years max, weed will be decriminalized. It’s coming and all they are doing is delaying the inevitable. Just give it up and make it happen is what I say because it’s gonna happen one way or another.
POLITRICKS AS USUAL!!!!! :joint :joint
I don’t see much benefit in allowing the feds to legalize weed,
First thing they would do is begin collecting a list of all the folks who had a MM card.
I already chewed out my bro for getting his card and his was state govt. I hate to see the fed bastards with a
list of people they wanna crap on and I will be happy enough to see MM as a state
legalized option as that is enough to free up the industry.I remember the same argument for a federal concealed carry permit, who wants those gun-haters having a list?
:goodpost
