re: DEA announces that marijuana will remain a Schedule 1 drug - like LSD & heroin

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You give an anecdotal account with an N of 1 vs a phase III clinical trial that showed no benefit over placebo and worse outcomes vs opioids in cancer pain. BTW, I am a medicinal chemists who also happens to be a professor in a school of pharmacy. I also am part of an article under review demonstrating the effects of a selective CB2 agonist in cytokine secretion during wound healing. But, I have no idea what I am talking about, especially with regards to CBs or the system in which they function.

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Pain management is one of the uses that I'm not sold on myself. But pain isn't the only symptom of cancer. It may have an ability for mild pain relief, but not severe. Our brains produce opioids naturally for a reason.

There may be a cannabinoid besides thc or CBD that may be more effective. But modern marijuana breeding has reduced these cannabinoid to the point of ineffectiveness. The prohibition itself has led to bad breeding, that mainly about high thc. And while thc is effective for many things, for pain management, it's not near the top of my list.

And sorry for assuming you were uninformed. For every knowledgeable posters, there's dozens of posters that don't know anything.

But I do believe that anyone who agrees with marijuana being schedule 1, is an absolute dumbass. It's probably the least harmful of mind altering substances.

You do realize Phelps smokes and just won his 21st gold medal right? The most decorated Olympian of all time is a pothead

It doesn't matter if you or I believe it shouldn't be schedule I. It is schedule I according to the rules and policy we have in place that recognize it has no FDA approved medical indication (unlike cocaine, morphine, camphorated tincture of opium, etc). THC and CBD are not the only cannabinoids that have been tested for therapeutic benefit. They number in the thousands (both natural and synthetic). I fully expect a number of agents to emerge over the next 20 years. Unfortunately, drug discovery takes a very long time. To be quite honest, the major argument for the legalization of marijuana is the emergence of so many synthetic alternatives. THC is a partial agonist of the CB1 receptor, which means it can act as an antagonist against a full agonist or even antagonize its own effects (makes it difficult to overdose, right). Some of these synthetic derivatives like the JWH series have full agonist properties at CB1 with higher affinity binding. There have been countless reports of teens/young adults demonstrating signs of overdose on these chemicals (flushing, paranoia, high BP, and racing heart).

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Trump will make America great again by legalizing marijuana

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I would vote for him, who cares about weed. I'm tired of hearing about it

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It is schedule I according to the rules and policy we have in place that recognize it has no FDA approved medical indication (unlike cocaine, morphine, camphorated tincture of opium, etc)

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Then explain to us how dronabinol is schedule III.

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There have been countless reports of teens/young adults demonstrating signs of overdose on these chemicals

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who cares about weed

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Literally, millions of people.

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It doesn't matter if you or I believe it shouldn't be schedule I. It is schedule I according to the rules and policy we have in place that recognize it has no FDA approved medical indication (unlike cocaine, morphine, camphorated tincture of opium, etc).

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Yet the federal government owns the patent on cannabis. Let's call it what it is, money and politics is why the fda hasn't changed it's scheduling. They have fought research for years, and are only recently opened up and allowed research because of public pressure.


And beyond actually medical benefits. There are decades of public usage that show it's not the dangerous, highly addictive substance the government claimed. But disturbing the status quo ruffles too many feathers. So here we are, in 2016, prohibition still in tact. Even though public opinion of in favor of legalization.

Schedule III means less potential for abuse over those in schedule I or II. As discussed marijuana is schedule I primarily because it has no approved medical use and is still one of the most abused drugs in existence. None of that means it's lethal or dangerous.

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There have been countless reports of teens/young adults demonstrating signs of overdose on these chemicals

Did I touch on a sensitive subject for you? A personal experience you want to discuss?

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The Hypocrisy is that the DEA schedules the Drug as having no medicinal benefits. Yet the US government has issued a patent on the medicinal benefits. So US government, which one is it?

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US Patent 6,630,507 Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants

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"Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention."...

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The U.S. Patent Office issued patent #6630507 to the U.S.Health and Human Services filed on 2/2/2001. The patent lists the use of certain cannabinoids found within the cannabis sativa plant as useful in certain neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and HIV dementia. Since cannabis sativa (marijuana) contains compounds recognized and endorsed by an agency of the U.S. government- Why is it that marijuana remains on the Federal Schedule One list of drugs? The issuance of patent #6630507 is a direct contradiction of the governments own definition for classification of a Schedule 1 drug.

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This alone should nullify Schedule I.

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