Final Draft: Marijuana: Schedule 1 Drug or Medical Miracle
Marijuana: Schedule 1 Drug or Medical Miracle Educate Yourself Heroin! LSD! Ecstasy! Quaalude! Peyote! Marijuana. All these drugs are in the same category as a schedule 1 drug. That’s right; Marijuana is in the same category as heroin. The same category as LSD. According to the DEA, a Schedule I controlled substance has “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” No medical use? Are you serious? Where do I begin? Pharmaceutical Monopoly Scientists are in a catch 22 situation. With the lack of research, the government has not been willing to re-categorize marijuana to a schedule 2 or schedule 3 drug. Because it is still a schedule 1 drug, scientists are unable to test the drug on humans and this makes it extremely difficult to provide medical evidence of this miraculous plant to help re-categorize it from a schedule 1 drug. Sanjay Gupta, MD is a medical Correspondent for CNN. He wrote an article called, It’s Time for a Medical Marijuana ...