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Obama Says Marijuana Is Not Medicine,
Will Remain As Illegal As Heroin
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Any hope that President Obama, a legendary pot smoker back at
Occidental College in the late
1970s, might reclassify marijuana as a drug that
has medicinal value just went up in smoke.
Nine years ago, for the third time since marijuana was prohibited more than a
half-century ago, medical marijuana supporters led by Americans for Safe Access
(ASA) asked the federal government to reclassify cannabis so that it's not
listed alongside heroin as a purely dangerous narcotic. Today, the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) responded with a resounding "Yeah, right.
What are you smoking?"
As negative as it is, the fact that the government finally rejected the petition
is being called a victory of sorts by medical pot backers. For one thing,
according to an LA Times story today, they had to go to a federal court to force
the DEA to even respond at all. And now that the answer is no, they get to
appeal the decision without further prevarication.
"We have foiled the government's strategy of delay, and we can now go
head-to-head on the merits, that marijuana really does have therapeutic
value," Joe Elford, an ASA lawyer, told the Times. Elford added that he
wasn't surprised by the decision given recent signs that the Obama
administration, despite promising not to go after medical pot patients, had no
such qualms about prosecuting large-scale marijuana growers.
"It is clearly motivated by a political decision that is anti-marijuana,
" he said. Elford argued that despite the DEA's stance, there is little debate nowadays that cannabis provides relief to cancer patients and other
people struggling with terminal illness and chronic pain. "One of the
things people say about marijuana is that it gives One of the things people say
about marijuana is that it gives you the munchies and the truth is that it does,
and for some people that's a very positive thing."
Although Elford said ASA plans to appeal the DEA's decision, the odds aren't
looking good for such a tactic: the last two times the government refused to
reclassify marijuana, the appeals failed in the courts.
By Nick Schou Fri., Jul. 8 2011 at 3:49 PM
http://blogs.
ocweekly. com/navelgazing/ 2011/07/obama_ says_marijuana_ is_not_me. php
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