Feds Keep Marijuana As a Schedule 1 Drug

[wisemaniac]

If you're against legalizing marijuana, I respect your opinion. There are certainly pros & cons. Believe it or not, that's not the point of this post. The point is that the Feds are keeping it classified as a Schedule 1 drug - the worst of the worst. Just to give you an idea how absurd that is, here the other drugs classified the same way: Heroin, LSD, Peyote, Ecstacy, GHB (date rape drug), Psilocybins, Quaaludes, Khat & Bath Salts. To put that in perspective, here's the Schedule 2 list: Dilaudid, Meth, Demerol, Oxy, Fentanyl, Morphine, Opium & Codine.

I'm all for preventing addiction. But if you want to know why we've lost the war on drugs, it's because it's hard to fight something if you do it with your head in the sand. I'm not making the argument to legalize marijuana but in comparison to alcohol, alcohol is clearly worse for you. I'm not a drinker & I don't look down on anybody who does - just as I don't look down on anybody who smokes pot. Unless either are ruining your life. Ask just about any cop how dangerous the two drugs are in comparison to each other & then go back & look at the lists for the different schedules of drugs. One is considered Schedule 1 & the other isn't even on any of the lists.

The Presidents daughter was just filmed smoking a joint at a concert. I'm sure as a concerned parent he had a conversation with her about the dangers of drugs (which would have made for the best "I learned it from watching you, dad. I learned it from watching you" moment ever) but do you think he has her in rehab because of it?

 

[i am herdman]

Every drug addict I ever knew or heard of started with marijuana..I have seen careers ruined over it. Most companies now require drug testing. Wreck a company vehicle and the first thing you are going to be subjected to is a drug test. If you ever admit to smoking pot the military is not going tot take you.

Just saying. Everybody can make their choices but I don't recommend ever starting to smoke that shi*. It is not harmless.

I bet everyone of those people who overdosed in Huntington started out with weed.

 

[wisemaniac]

Alcohol is the true gateway drug. People who drink don't like to acknowledge it but they know it's true.

New research out this month in the Journal of School Health could shed some light on this question. A team of researchers from Texas A&M and the University of Florida examined data from from 2,800 U.S. 12th graders interviewed for the Monitoring the Future study, an annual federal survey of teen drug use. They wanted to establish which substances teens typically used first.

They give away their findings in the title of their paper: "Prioritizing Alcohol Prevention: Establishing Alcohol as the Gateway Drug and Linking Age of First Drink With Illicit Drug Use." They found that "the vast majority of respondents reported using alcohol prior to either tobacco or marijuana initiation."

Not only that, but of those three main substances -- alcohol, tobacco and marijuana -- kids were the least likely to start using pot before the others.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...real-gateway-drug-thats-everywhere-and-legal/

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

The big joke is Schedule 1 means there is no acceptable medical use, yet the federal government still prescribes a small number of people with marijuana.

 

[andy4theherd]

 

[herdfan06]

Every drug addict I ever knew or heard of started with marijuana..I have seen careers ruined over it. Most companies now require drug testing. Wreck a company vehicle and the first thing you are going to be subjected to is a drug test. If you ever admit to smoking pot the military is not going tot take you.

Just saying. Everybody can make their choices but I don't recommend ever starting to smoke that shi*. It is not harmless.

I bet everyone of those people who overdosed in Huntington started out with weed.

Let's overtax our courts/criminal justice system with weed heads.

 

[Herd Fever]

Every drug addict I ever knew or heard of started with marijuana..I have seen careers ruined over it. Most companies now require drug testing. Wreck a company vehicle and the first thing you are going to be subjected to is a drug test. If you ever admit to smoking pot the military is not going tot take you.

Just saying. Everybody can make their choices but I don't recommend ever starting to smoke that shi*. It is not harmless.

I bet everyone of those people who overdosed in Huntington started out with weed.

I have smoked Marijuana since I was 17, never I'm my life have I thought about doing anything else.

The whole "Marijuana is a gateway drug" is nothing more than a BS lie and propaganda. If anything cigarettes and pills are gateway drugs. Most stoners pretty much stick with Marijuana.

 

[Herd Fever]

Every drug addict I ever knew or heard of started with marijuana..I have seen careers ruined over it. Most companies now require drug testing. Wreck a company vehicle and the first thing you are going to be subjected to is a drug test. If you ever admit to smoking pot the military is not going tot take you.

Just saying. Everybody can make their choices but I don't recommend ever starting to smoke that shi*. It is not harmless.

I bet everyone of those people who overdosed in Huntington started out with weed.

And I bet you all those people that overdosed was probably over prescribed by some Pillbilly Doctor to the point they was hooked to Opiods, then stop giving them their pills, and then turned to heroin because it is a cheaper alternative.

That is why this country is dying from the Heroin epidemic, NOT MARIJUANA. Please get from under whatever "Just say No" Rock you been living under

 

[andy4theherd]

until cigarettes are made illegal, i don't want to hear anything about how bad pot is (and i don't smoke either one). my dad and his sister both had cancer before they were 40. neither smoked a day in their lives. it was attributed to secondhand smoke. both of their parents smoked a pack a day.

Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including nearly 42,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.
-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

[-CarlHungus-]

I've never smoked pot. I would LOVE to be able to prescribe it though. My patients say it helps with pain and nausea and I believe them.

If I had cancer and my anti emetics or pain meds were sib optimal you bet I'd be reaching for pot. When my patients tell me it helps I tell them to not get caught but keep doing it. It's sad that I as a cancer doctor can't help my patients.

 

[-CarlHungus-]

I'll get on my other soap box too...

The WV economy is screwed. Time for radical thinking...

Legalize pot and start a marihuana horticulture program at MU or WVU (like how UC Davis has a brewing program). Be the worlds leader in commercial pot production.

Research it like crazy in clinical trials at the med schools. Research and publish the optimal growing conditions. Legitimize it through academia and monetize it by commercial production.

 

[wisemaniac]

The leaders in this state seem unable to embrace certain realities & craft policies accordingly. As with everything else, they'll wait until every state around us is profiting from it & our citizens who travel to obtain it. Our officials pretend like it's not already here & that legalization will somehow introduce it into the state. Hell, mandate that 20% of the income directly from it goes toward helping folks with opioid treatments.

 

[herdfan06]

I'll get on my other soap box too...

The WV economy is screwed. Time for radical thinking...

Legalize pot and start a marihuana horticulture program at MU or WVU (like how UC Davis has a brewing program). Be the worlds leader in commercial pot production.

Research it like crazy in clinical trials at the med schools. Research and publish the optimal growing conditions. Legitimize it through academia and monetize it by commercial production.

I wonder how many lab tech/admins would apply for positions in that department, heck, students would volunteer to be the janitor in that facility.