They don't even try to hide it any more.
Assholes!

http://www.NaturalNews.c...legalized_marijuana.html

This isnt really shocking, knowing the DEA.

:arrow: Follow the Money :arrow: $$$

It's all about giving it the right spin. And ole' W's father who realy made the war on drugs a BIG busines knew how to do that: show the public pictures of afro-americans who mugged, killed or raped a white person and say that they where crack-users....it's that simple. That's how they made cannabis illegal in the first place: black people+ rape+drugs=bingo.

I don’t understand this. Hasn’t marinol (synthesized THC) been a prescription drug for decades? So how can it be schedule I - drugs that have no medical value?

It is angering to me because of the brazen hypocrisy and the bloody commitment to what Ott termed the Entheogenic Inquisition.
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It's bad because only the pharmaceutical will be licensed to produce them.
But after reading this article I don't care because people are not going to take a pill with pure THC over good weed anyways. Weed has over over 60 other cannabinoids that affect the high.
And the pharmaceutical companies will never grow and sell weed. They need to be able to sell THC in milligrams for dosing. Even if they mix all these cannabinoids together they would have to extract them and mix them again to know the exact amount of each.
It's never going to be like smoking weed.

The states still issue licenses for their people to grow and use medicinal marijuana so I don't think it really matters what the feds say at this point. They know they lost, and they're grasping on to whatever they have left.

Whatever the DEA does at this point is irrelevant. State by state the laws will change and in time the prohibition will be over. It will happen. It may take another 3-4 years but it will happen.

I agree with DMTripper.

Fuck 'em

fortunately most of us aren't living in iran. I know that it's not exactly brave of me to say this but, i just think that as long as you're not drawing too much attention you can smoke whatever you want and still stay out of trouble. It's a long way to legalisation if it ever happens.

If you want liberal laws you'd need at least 50% of the population to think like gandhi or other enlightened persons, wich is difficult because the most of us are taught to think like pigs: Remember that 'liberal' is considered an insult by half of the western population....happyness in slavery.

I agree this is pretty damn offensive.... and yet still in the long run it will probably help to push things in a better direction. Although the push in the right direction won't come from the DEA, but from those who point out this absurdity, like you are doing.

No matter what the dea does, people are going to be offended. What is the government going to say when it finally does legalize stuff? Oops.... sorry for the hundreds of thousands of lives we wrecked stopping people from medicating themselves, sorry for the cumulative thousands of years we took from peoples lives in prison, and stuck people in with the most violent members of society. Sry.... we had "good intentions", ya'll know that right? Actually, maybe a big part of the reason they won't legalize is the tremendous responsibility that places on the government. What would they say to all the people they've hurt? It seems like the government goes to extraordinary means to do anything but admit they made a mistake, even when it's obvious they have. Still, people can move on if they say sorry, that they learned a lesson from their mistake, and they'll make sure the same crap doesn't happen again. Sadly, they continue choosing to pull the same stuff over and over.

Through my eyes, for the fight to legalize marijuana, this is a fantastic step.

The problem all along with shooting for full legalization was that the drug was schedule 1, and this made any protests futile until its status was reduced.

Groups have tried for years, suing and arguing to get it down to a schedule 2, then 3, so that we could in the end have a legitimate chance of full legalization.

The hypocrisy here stemming from the DEA is obvious, but they have dug their own grave.

Long term, this is good.

I agree with Steely, long-term, this is probably a good thing... if only because a lot of people who think of marijuana as evil might be forced to think twice once doctors recommend Schedule III synth-THC to them.

I think getting irritated about the DEA's hyprocrisy is irrelevant. It was demonstrated so long ago that getting upset now seems a bit unnecessary... Also, not to be the devil's advocate, but I'd like to see more about this issue! This guy obviously has his own views on the subject, I'd like to see more takes on the story.

On a positive note, the Seattle Times has an anti-prohibition article in it nearly every week! The Seattle city head attorney dude even wrote one... and to my knowledge, a bill has been filed in the WA legislature which would remove state penalties for marijuana for non-minors. It's a-comin'!

You're being too optimistic. The image cannabis has is that using it is a non-WASP type of activity, so that seals the faith of every related bill in this regard.
When latino's are finally a majoryity in the USA it still won't become legal, because they will listen to what the pope (you know, the headmaster of the roman pedophiles with the funny little hat) has to say about it.

Look at it this way: alcohol is illegal in the arab world because it has a western image. Every substance of wich the use is considered to be 'alien' to the tribes involved in governing a nation, will become and stay illegal.
Until jamaicans are a majority in america, cannabis will not become legal there.

The state says I can legally possess, use, and grow cannabis. (They even allow the legal distribution to care givers and patients as long as you're covering grow costs and not making tons of profit)

I don't think it matters what the feds say or think at this point. I light up joints in public places (that still allow tobacco smoking) and couldn't care less.

same here, I think.. I'm pretty sure where I live there are more dispensaries than liquor stores, it's pretty ubiquitous round these parts of high elevation..