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Marijuana Causes Blindness

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 08:58

The evidence is conclusive: Marijuana causes blindness. At least if you work at the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Responding to a pair of petitions by two Democratic governors and a nurse practitioner, the DEA flatly declined to change how marijuana is classified under federal drug control laws. The petitioners asked that it be moved out of Schedule I, a classification for drugs that come with a high potential for abuse and no accepted clinical application. This places marijuana in the company of substances like heroin and LSD, and means it is a more highly regulated substance than cocaine.

In a letter explaining the agency’s position, DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenberg conceded that marijuana is less dangerous than some of the substances in less regulated schedules. “That strikes some people as odd, but the criteria for inclusion in Schedule I is not relative danger,” Rosenberg wrote. “It is best not to think of...

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