Senate Judiciary chair floats federal marijuana legalization

[jmowreader]

50. That will come but in time

Moving pot from Schedule I to Unscheduled calls into question the rest of the Schedule I drugs - if pot is as dangerous as heroin (what its current Schedule implies) and pot is now free for all, why not do the same for smack?

I would suggest rescheduling everything:

I: bath salts, JWH-018 (synthetic weed), methamphetamine, cocaine

II: all opiates and barbiturates, surgical anesthetics including PCP

III: benzodiazepines

IV: whatever's on there now is fine

V: the current Schedule V list, plus marijuana

The big one is not moving pot to the cough syrup schedule (which basically eliminates regulation of it), it's moving heroin to a schedule low enough that hospices can get it. There are cancer patients writhing in pain in our hospice houses right now because the only thing strong enough to bring relief is smack - which they can't get. This is more important than healthy people relaxing with a bowl of Panama Red, but it's also politically impossible.