The biggest divide between DC politicians and America: medical marijuana

[RainDog]

19. One of the people discussing the case mentioned the patent issue

the question was something like... okay, so the federal govt says there's no medical use for cannabis - so then why have they patented it.

the argument from the DEA is so full of b.s. it goes like this - cannabis has more than 400 compounds - that's because it's a plant, not a drug.

Plants are not simple molecular structures. The 4 points the DEA says that any medicine has to meet to qualify instantly disqualify cannabis, again, because cannabis is a plant, and not a drug.

That's why I say the world should just simply remove it from the drug schedules entirely - it's not a drug. It's a plant with psychotropic properties in some circumstances.

After nearly two decades of normalized use in Amsterdam and CA, the world hasn't come to an end, people are not raping grandmothers because they got high - none of the reefer madness scare stories have proved out.

And, what's really interesting about this is that Mayor LaGuardia, in NYC, was calling the federal govt on this shit just as he called them on prohibition. Too bad we don't have a Mayor LaGuardia in the northeast today to talk some sense.