US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say
US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say
In a historic shift, the U.S. moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, AP sources say.
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i wish that they would also reschedule lsd and psilocybin to schedule III, but at least some progress is better than no progress
Seriously. There have to be more people who die from ketamine than LSD every year. It all seems so arbitrary.
It is arbitrary. While what classification a substance is may have some grounding in research, it's mostly up to what interest group has either lobbied to get something under or whatever group law enforcement wants to be able to get easy charges for. Cannabis was Sched I because it made it easy for law enforcement to get big sentences for minorities and the counter culture participants of the day. Same thing with LSD and psilocybin.
All the DEA scheduling is just pick and choose your charge for whatever ideological ax they want to grind. Hence why things don't line up with reality
And MDMA? It shows a lot of promise in therapeutic use. Schedule 1 is for substances with “no currently accepted medical treatment use”.
Yeah, MDMA also doesn’t belong in schedule I, although it is definitely more risky than lsd and mushrooms
How so?
Overdose of MDMA can cause seratonin syndrome, which can be fatal; and long term use might be linked to depression and anxiety (again, by the way it interacts with seratonin)
It definitely should be rescheduled too, since it is not dangerous enough and definitely has potential for medical use (couple therapy was it’s original use)