• frezik
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      Because the dumb system of rescheduling just works this way.

      The DEA shouldn’t even be in the bureaucratic pathway. They’re cops, and they shouldn’t have a say in what counts as medicine. The FDA is far from perfect, but they are the scientists.

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        I think the DEA is the only entity at the Federal level that cares about marijuana. Drug warriors are gonna drug war.

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          The DEA’s administrative law judge already said it shouldn’t be Schedule I, after a lengthy review, and (surprise!) the DEA administrator ignored them. What a genius system; leave it up to the person wielding power to be the one making the final decision to wield less power 🤦