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Omaha Steve

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Thu Aug 11, 2016, 08:26 PM Aug 2016

Bernie Sanders Slams Decision Not To Reclassify Marijuana [View all]

Source: Huffington Post

By Daniel Marans

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) threw some shade at the Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday.

The DEA announced it would end the federal government’s monopoly on marijuana cultivation, but to the disappointment of many drug reform proponents, the agency declined to reclassify pot from its list of “most dangerous” narcotics.

Sanders made clear on Twitter that he was among those dissatisfied with the decision not to remove marijuana from the federal government’s list of “Schedule I” drugs, where it sits alongside heroin and LSD. (Schedule I is the most severe category of illegal substances, referring to drugs with the greatest tendency for abuse and no known medical uses.)

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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-marijuana-dea_us_57ac99c9e4b06e52746f7294

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