Washington Pharmacists Vote to Recommend Descheduling Medical Marijuana

When I arrived at Highline College to sit in on a meeting of the Washington State Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission (PQAC) last Friday, I was fairly certain the puke-yellow puffy Ed Hardy jacket I’d spotted on the bus on the way there would be the most interesting thing I’d see all day. Instead I was treated to a riveting theoretical discussion of the ramifications of changing the scheduling of marijuana in the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). This could be huge news.

Even though marijuana is legal in Washington State, the state-level Controlled Substances Act still classifies it as a schedule I drug, meaning it’s considered to have a high potential for abuse and no redeeming medical value. Its status also determines punishment for marijuana-related crimes. (It’s also a schedule I drug at the federal level.) When Governor Jay Inslee signed the Cannabis Patient Protection Act (SB 5052) into law, folding the medical marijuana market...

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