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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My personal opinion: we would make huge strides in properly dealing with marijuana if the FDA just reclassified it properly. There is no scientific excuse for the continued schedule I classification, and everybody knows it. It's a lot easier to get people to accept and follow rules and regulations if they actually track with reality.[/quote]
Perhaps you had too much pot?[/quote]

PP here.  I don't understand your point.  Marinuana's classification as schedule I is indisputable fact.  The fact that science doesn't support this classification is also clear - the evidence for medicinal uses of marijuana is overwhelming, although not as developed as it should be because the Schedule I classification makes research much more difficult. The idea that people are less likely to support the law if it doesn't match with reality is opinion, though supported I think by psychological evidence.

On the anecdotal side I am a scientist, but know a number of prosecutors and DEA agents who support marijuana's reclassification as well. I don't know anyone who understands the issue who honestly believes marijuana belongs with Heroin and LSD or that it is WORSE than cocaine (a schedule II drug). The classifications simply don't track with reality.[/quote]

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