No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says

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114. It was a kind of bait and switch... Catch 22... one of those things

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In 1970, Egeberg recommended pot be classified Schedule 1 until these studies tell us more. I kid you not. Here's my source (Dr. Gupta was on the short list to be Surgeon General by Obama)....

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Why I changed my mind on weed
By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent
updated 8:44 PM EDT, Thu August 8, 2013

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana

" ...On August 14, 1970, the Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg wrote a letter recommending the plant, marijuana, be classified as a schedule 1 substance, and it has remained that way for nearly 45 years. My research started with a careful reading of that decades old letter. What I found was unsettling. Egeberg had carefully chosen his words:

"'Since there is still a considerable void in our knowledge of the plant and effects of the active drug contained in it, our recommendation is that marijuana be retained within schedule 1 at least until the completion of certain studies now underway to resolve the issue.'

"Not because of sound science, but because of its absence, marijuana was classified as a schedule 1 substance. Again, the year was 1970. Egeberg mentions studies that are underway, but many were never completed. As my investigation continued, however, I realized Egeberg did in fact have important research already available to him, some of it from more than 25 years earlier... "

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