The US Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug – despite increasing research on its harms. “They are ignoring science: it’s an election year and they are pandering for votes,” AALM commented. Will it go through the FDA drug approval process?
AALM STATEMENT
What drug use is both “medicinal” and “recreational”?
Rescheduling will not:
- Reduce the black market. It will increase it.
- Eliminate teen and young adult addiction to pot. It will increase it.
- Stop the illegal pot grows. It will increase them.
- Eliminate the human trafficking and employment abuses occurring at pot grow sites. It will increase it.
- Reduce the crime associated with marijuana growing and trafficking. It will increase it.
- Reduce marijuana impaired driving now eclipsing drunk driving. It will increase it.
- Eliminate the selling of marijuana products contaminated with heavy metals, poisons, and fungus. It will increase it.
- Reduce psychotic violence, teen and youth suicides, and child abuse related to pot use. It will increase it.
- Reduce crime and criminal prosecution of crimes committed under the influence of pot. It will increase it.
Rescheduling will institutionalize marijuana as yet another addiction-for-profit industry.
