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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2868291" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The DEA Will Soon Decide Whether it Will Reschedule Marijuana</strong></span></p><p>April 6, 2016</p><p></p><p><img src="https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/99037655.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The Drug Enforcement Administration says it will make a decision in the coming months that could prove to be a watershed moment for the burgeoning legal marijuana industry.</p><p></p><p>In a memo to lawmakers this week, the DEA announced plans to decide “in the first half of 2016” whether or not it will reschedule marijuana, according to <em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2016/04/Response.pdf" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a></em>. Cannabis is now listed under the Controlled Substances Act as a <a href="http://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml" target="_blank">Schedule 1 drug,</a> a categorization it shares with other drugs, such as heroin and LSD, which the U.S. government defines as “the most dangerous drugs” that have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”</p><p></p><p>Advocates for marijuana legalization have long <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2015/02/13-how-to-reschedule-marijuana-hudak-wallack" target="_blank">argued</a> that the drug should be rescheduled, considering marijuana’s relative safety when compared to a drug like heroin, which caused roughly 11,000 overdose deaths in 2014, <a href="https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates" target="_blank">according</a> to the National Institutes of Health. The argument for rescheduling marijuana also revolves largely around the drug’s potential for medical use, as 23 states have already legalized medical pot to treat a variety of maladies—from cancer to chronic pain—and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy even <a href="http://fortune.com/2015/02/04/surgeon-general-medical-marijuana/" target="_blank">admitted last year</a> that “marijuana can be helpful” for certain medical conditions.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://fortune.com/2016/04/06/dea-decision-marijuana-reschedule/" target="_blank">http://fortune.com/2016/04/06/dea-decision-marijuana-reschedule/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2868291, member: 7629"] [SIZE=6][B]The DEA Will Soon Decide Whether it Will Reschedule Marijuana[/B][/SIZE] April 6, 2016 [IMG]https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/99037655.jpg?w=1024[/IMG] The Drug Enforcement Administration says it will make a decision in the coming months that could prove to be a watershed moment for the burgeoning legal marijuana industry. In a memo to lawmakers this week, the DEA announced plans to decide “in the first half of 2016” whether or not it will reschedule marijuana, according to [I][URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2016/04/Response.pdf']The Washington Post[/URL][/I]. Cannabis is now listed under the Controlled Substances Act as a [URL='http://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml']Schedule 1 drug,[/URL] a categorization it shares with other drugs, such as heroin and LSD, which the U.S. government defines as “the most dangerous drugs” that have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” Advocates for marijuana legalization have long [URL='http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2015/02/13-how-to-reschedule-marijuana-hudak-wallack']argued[/URL] that the drug should be rescheduled, considering marijuana’s relative safety when compared to a drug like heroin, which caused roughly 11,000 overdose deaths in 2014, [URL='https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates']according[/URL] to the National Institutes of Health. The argument for rescheduling marijuana also revolves largely around the drug’s potential for medical use, as 23 states have already legalized medical pot to treat a variety of maladies—from cancer to chronic pain—and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy even [URL='http://fortune.com/2015/02/04/surgeon-general-medical-marijuana/']admitted last year[/URL] that “marijuana can be helpful” for certain medical conditions. [URL]http://fortune.com/2016/04/06/dea-decision-marijuana-reschedule/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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