Until Ben Swann begins posting here - I've sent a few solicitations I'll post his Reality Checks here
You have heard by now that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says it will not push to reclassify marijuana.
What does that mean? Why won’t they do it?
And also, why the government’s policy on this issue is stunningly hypocritical.
This is a Reality Check you won’t see anywhere else.
Last week, the DEA announced that it will not push to reschedule marijuana, more correctly called cannabis.
So what is the DEA talking about when it says rescheduling?
To understand that, you first need to understand the drug schedule.
The U.S. government uses a five-tier system for drug classification. A Schedule 5 drug would be a drug determined to have very little risk of abuse and high medical use. An example of a Schedule 5 drug would be cough medicine like Robitussin.
Cannabis is a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it has no accepted medical use and has a high risk of abuse. So cannabis remains scheduled the same way as a deadly drug like heroin.
The hope was that cannabis would at the very least be rescheduled as a Schedule 2 drug. These drugs still have high risk of abuse; drugs like oxycodone (Oxycontin, Percocet) are Schedule 2 drugs.
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