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[QUOTE]Colorado and Washington approved adult-use recreational marijuana measures in 2012. Alaska, Oregon and District of Columbia followed suit in fall of 2014. In 2015, Ohio voters defeated a ballot measure that addressed commercial production and sale of recreational marijuana. On Nov. 8, 2016, voters in four states, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada, approved adult-use recreational marijuana, while voters in Arizona disapproved. In 2018, Michigan voters approved “Proposal 1” by a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent to legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana in the state. In 2018, Vermont became the first state to legalize marijuana for adult use through the legislative process (rather than a ballot initiative.) Vermont’s law went into effect July 1, 2018. In May 2019, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, House Bill 1438 and the Governor signed the legislation in June. Recently, New Jersey (AB 21) legalized certain personal use, while removing marijuana as a schedule I drug.[/QUOTE].
[b]Should cannabis still be a Schedule I drug?[/b]
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The Drug Enforcement Agency received a recommendation to reclassify cannabis as a Schedule III drug, a move that would be a boon to research and patient care.
Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center researchers say reclassifying cannabis as a Schedule III substance would loosen the restraints on research into possible benefits, as well as any potential negative side effects, of medical marijuana.
It all starts with a license application. There are background checks to pass, not only for the person applying, but also for their colleagues and employees. Then, federal agents show up on site to confirm that a lockable safe is securely bolted to the concrete floor of a lockable room. When work begins, the safe can only be opened by someone on the Drug Enforcement Agency approved persons list. Everything about the contents must be dutifully recorded, including where it came from, when it was removed from the safe, how it was used, and when it was returned to the safe or disposed of.
It might sound like a system used to safeguard priceless antiquities, but it isn’t. Instead, it is a fact of life for researchers who want to conduct experiments using cannabis. Nothing about studying cannabis is easy, but the reason for the high security is simple – cannabis is a Schedule I drug, alongside heroin, LSD and ecstasy.
The rest of the article is in the link below if anyone gives a rats ass :D
[url]https://healthsciences.arizona.edu/news/stories/should-cannabis-still-be-schedule-i-drug[/url][/quote]