Federal Court of Appeals Denies Petition to Reschedule Marijuana

  • by Erik Altieri, NORML Communications Director January 22, 2013











    Petitioners are considering their legal options at this time.

    164 Responses to “Federal Court of Appeals Denies Petition to Reschedule Marijuana”

    1. Warren Osborn says:

      Once again, you will not have freedom until you take it and throw them out on their heads. WAKE THE FUCK UP!

    2. William says:

      While I do believe that marijuana has medical value….OBVIOUS medical value, I maintain that the fight has to be over legality….PERIOD. Nobody has the right to tell me what I can or can’t put in my own body. Using marijuana is a basic human right if a person so wishes to exercise that right.

    3. Joel: the other Joel says:

      Did congress rendered the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 to the DEA, and gave them full entitlement to be the supreme judge of those laws?

    4. Dave says:

      William and Joel, I can’t agree more. This circular reasoning is so completely devoid of logic and common sense. They still want to arrest people for doing nothing wrong.

      Obama wants to “professionalize” the War on Drugs. That is quite a tall order Mr. President, how can we “get better” at shitting on America?

    5. Will says:

      you guys believe we the people have a say any more… you make me laugh. we the people died along time ago . its about them and there capitalist gains.

    6. Thomas says:

      The dea has only one job and that is busting cannibis users. They aren’t even interested in real drug trade because they don’t make money off it. They only care about their idiotic strategy to keep getting government funding. Rest assured we are finally beating them at their own game and they will be publicly humiliated when it finally becomes legal everyplace.

      Basically cannabis is the life blood of the dea without it the entire agency goes up in smoke. They will never back down from this fight. It would be like admitting they have been intentionally stealing from the American public for years and wrongfully imprisoning people… Which they have…

    7. Jims says:

      I agree with Warren!

    8. for420 says:

      It’s true only the Swiss have really done deep study and No controlled Study by any Large university in the US has been able to meet that standard.

    9. Willie James says:

      How would alcohol be classified, if it were a scheduled drug? I have no problem with strict enforcement of restrictions for minors or even in public, but this policy seems dismissive.

      What actions are being taken towards appealing this case once again?

    10. vince civito says:

      Ever since prohibition of alcohol many people became alcoholics and problems with alcohol went through the roof. Now in this day and age, we banned cannabis and there are more people smoking weed then ever. Prohibition dosent work stop letting history repeat itself

    11. TOD LONDON says:


    12. Nick says:

      It’s not that it lacks substantial evidence for medical benefit. It’s that the DEA is completely ignoring any and all evidence of its benefit, for the sake of keeping it illegal.

    13. Lex says:

      Nick you got it man. Y’all should of seen Michele Leonhardt of the DEA awhile back in congress when questioned on the CSA whether or not Marijuana is more harmful than cocaine. She responded, marijuana is a schedule 1 drug. Without even answering the question. You never hear their answers because saying so would support Marijuana’s stance. Marijuana is bad, why? Because its illegal! Nonsense!

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