Another suit filed against the feds to reschedule cannabis yesterday

[Seamaiden]

And let's hope the courts force the federal government to STOP the delays!

Marijuana advocates filed a suit in a U.S. Circuit Court today to force the Obama administration to answer a petition that seeks to have the federal government recognize cannabis as a drug with acceptable medical uses.

The suit wants the court to order the administration to answer the original request within 60 days. This after nine years of stalling on the matter, according to California NORML, which is party to Monday's suit.


If the coalition of pro-pot organizations is successful, marijuana would be taken out of the federal Schedule I category -- the group of outlaw drugs with no legitimate uses, to which cocaine doesn't even belong -- and, presumably, made available as a medicine from coast-to-cost. Wishful thinking?


According to a statement, the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis says the administration (first Bush's, now Obama's) never responded to its 2002 petition to reschedule marijuana, "despite a formal recommendation in 2006 from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the final arbiter in the rescheduling process."


The case has been going on so long that one of the patients named as a plaintiff has died, according to the coalition.


Joe Elford, lead counsel on the writ and Americans for Safe Access' top attorney, says:

The federal government's strategy has been delay, delay, delay. It is far past time for the government to answer our rescheduling petition, but unfortunately we've been forced to go to court in order to get resolution.​

Monday's filing accuses the government of "unreasonable delay."
" ... Ample evidence of its [pot's] therapeutic value exists based on scientific studies in the US and around the world," states the coalition.
It also notes that synthetic THC has already been classified as Schedule III.
California NORML director Dale Gieringer:

It is unacceptable for seriously ill Americans to wait a decade for their government to even respond to their petition for legal access to medicine to relieve their pain and suffering. The government's unreasonable delay seriously impugns its competence to oversee Americans' health care. The administration should act promptly to address its obsolete and bankrupt policy in accordance with President Obama's pledge to put science above politics.​

 

[Chronic Monster]

Crosses fingers:lock:

 

[MIway]

Nice

 

[420hieagle420]

hope it happens, my state wont even think of legal MJ until the feds get there act together..Keep It Green and Stay Safe..HE

 

[deacon1503]

Oh man getting it descheduled to a III or IV would be awesome.

 

[Snow Crash]

The Federal Government has no recourse here. They are stalling to avoid doing what they are required to by law. At this point, they've even stalled longer than you're "allowed" to stall for.

Here's a link to the US Federal Governments own patent for the medical usage of cannabinoids.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6630507.PN.&OS=PN/6630507&RS=PN/6630507

How can they patent the medical use in 2003 and continue to bull shit the American people for 8 years.

With 13 states on board, and another 18 trying to get legislation, wake the fuck up Politicians!!!!

 

[SSHZ]

The Obama admin. is skilled at defending this matter and don't get your hopes up......... I don't see it becoming unscheduled or reducing it to a schedule 2 or 3 drug. This would kill the financial machine that keeps tons of money flushing into the system. But that's just an opinion..

 

[convex]

This indeed would set the world stage ...

Cannabis restrictions world wide are the result of The Single Convention Treaty.

The Single Convention treaty was penned and presented by Aslinger, and the world nations at that time (1961) were co-erced into signing.

Excerpt from wiki:

The Single Convention created four Schedules of controlled substances and a process for adding new substances to the Schedules without amending the treaty. The Schedules were designed to have significantly stricter regulations than the two drug "Groups" established by predecessor treaties. For the first time, cannabis was added to the list of internationally controlled drugs. In fact, regulations on the cannabis plant – as well as the opium poppy, the coca bush, poppy straw and cannabis leaves – were embedded in the text of the treaty, making it impossible to deregulate them through the normal Scheduling process.

Would be nice to see this agreement deemed invalid.

Cheers

 

[monkey5]

Convex, Would mean this might happen: .. take good look at post #9 by norcal215..last paragraph tells the true story! That is "WHY" they are draging their feet! monkey5

 

[monkey5]

To all:If it turns out—as my story would seem to indicate—that cannabis is the cure for cancer and the government suppressed this information for 25 years (and continues to suppress it), then the body count alone will make this the biggest holocaust in recorded history. Virtually all federal drug policy makers of both parties since 1975—including legislators, presidents and the DEA—will be complicit and criminally liable.

That’s why they don’t want this story covered.
monkey5

 

[StrikeitRich]

To all:If it turns out—as my story would seem to indicate—that cannabis is the cure for cancer and the government suppressed this information for 25 years (and continues to suppress it), then the body count alone will make this the biggest holocaust in recorded history. Virtually all federal drug policy makers of both parties since 1975—including legislators, presidents and the DEA—will be complicit and criminally liable.

That’s why they don’t want this story covered.
monkey5

damn