contrary to what you believe or have been led to believe is an outright lie! there are thousands of proven uses of medical marijuana ! Montel Williams did a huge Dr .OZ show and proved beyond any shadow of doubt that marijuana has many uses medicinally . and furthermore the DEA has been notified 9 years ago to show why marijuana should not be rescheduled and for nine years they have postponed answering that question ! why because it should be rescheduled and they don't want to lose their jobs so they just ignored the question . Until now ! they have been given 60 days to answer that question and if they dont reply ,then this will lead to a huge lawsuit !

Your flawless logic is admirable. Thank you. With rescheduling, perhaps many can be employed.

So what?  What you're referring to is just legislation, and what Congress has legislated, Congress can change by further legislation.  There is no need for Congress to conform to any previous classification scheme it has used.  If they want to say that notwithstanding any provision of the Controlled Substances Act, this particular detail is the new law, then it is.

So what?  What you're referring to is just legislation, and what Congress has legislated, Congress can change by further legislation.  There is no need for Congress to conform to any previous classification scheme it has used.  If they want to say that notwithstanding any provision of the Controlled Substances Act, this particular detail is the new law, then it is.

   Do Your homework idiot...... there was a ten year study by the World Health Organization that proved it is useful on so many illnesses that it's obvious that big pharmisudical companies would loose billions of dollars if we could grow and use it for medical reasons,,,, Pepto bismal would go completely out of business!!!   Remember [it's better to remain silent and to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt].

If your statement that cannabis has no medical properties, how come Big Pharma is up the DEA's ass trying to get it to approve Big Pharma's bullshit extractions and synthetics????  Your argument carries no one drop of water.

So I guess you have failed to realize that the federal prohibition of Cannabis is actually what is unconstitutional.  In order to prohibit alcohol Congress needed to amend the US Constitution.  No such amendment was made to prohibit Cannabis.  NOTHING in the US Constitution gives the Federal Government the right to control what I take into my own body.  Further more Cannabis does not fit the definition of a schedule one substance. 

(1) Schedule I. —

(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.

(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.

(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode21/usc_sec_21_00000812----000-.html

This is the governments own definition.  Cannabis does not live up to any of these requirements.  Next time you want to spout off about something check your facts first.  Unless of course you like being brainwashed.

you are such a bonehead- tobacco???? medicinal value????? does that include the 300 known poisons in it?  please shut the pie hole and perhaps the bile will cease

 the federal govt makes bad  laws so we, as sheep , can abide by them and call it all good , right? never mind that the current federal laws were invented by Randolph Hearst  originally to make hemp, his competition , illegal?   id say your brain is null, and void

- tobacco???? medicinal value????? does that include the 300 known poisons in it?  please shut the pie hole and perhaps the bile will cease

 the federal govt makes bad  laws so we, as sheep , can abide by them and call it all good , right? never mind that the current federal laws were invented by Randolph Hearst  originally to make hemp, his competition , illegal?   id say your brain is null, and void

Gerald sez:

" I am all for approving Marijuana for use as a medical alternative as long as it can be shown that it does have some form of medicinal value..."

Check out glaucoma research.  THC in the form of Marinol treats this condition and is considered 100% SAFE by the FDA.

Lotsa cave dwellers out there. 

I think you missed it. The very first bill called for a reschedulig of marijuana. Also It states that we are trying to push the DEA to get off the 9 year old petition to reclassify.

MMJ is used for Migranes, pain, isomnia, cancer, shrinks tumors, makes very sick dying people well. you have no compassion, I suspect you are a Law enforcement official, or a plant by a drug company, I see more examples every day that this "devils weed" is a legitimate medical substance, the fact it is grown in backyards by patients has big Pharma worried they will not get their $$$$$$$, so they put out bomb throwers like this chump to scare the people, well it isn't working this time, Marijuana is and will continue to be used medically no matter what federal law states. We just want to take our medicine without bieng criminals.

You need to read your Constitution again.  Oops, sorry.  Not YOUR Constitution, THE US Constitution.

It does NOT say that any law enacted at the Federal Level supersedes ANY State law.  Maybe in yours but not in ours.  It simply says that those rights so outlined fall to the Federal Level.  Anything else (drugs included), which are NOT mentioned specifically, fall to the State Level.  This is why Az. had a problem with their Immigration Law.  Immigration is Constitutionally-specified as a Federal Right.  No way around it.  The CSA, on the other hand, is simply a bill that can be changed whereas the Constitution carries a harder change procedure.

"The Constitution specifically states that issues that are not Specifically covered under existing Federal Law are reserved to the States to make laws governing them." -- No, it doesn't.  And it doesn't say the inverse, either.

what is schedule 1 and does that make having weed a crime

Marijuana is a medicine used and documented since ancient times, since the beginning of written history! The government we live under today wants us to breathe car exhaust fumes, eat and drink things we cannot pronounce in our daily food and drink and to think in such a way as to usher us into the doctor’s office begging the good overly educated inflated ego physician for dear life and salvation from our urbanized way of living which is unsustainable globally!

The fact that medical marijuana was scheduled as a Schedule 1 Drug against all scientific and historical evidence proves how easy it is for malicious people in power, the government to subvert us into begging for salvation terminally ill patients whether we are conscious of this fact or not, sooner or later you WILL  beg the docs in their pricy medical offices.

2012 may be a year when we wake up to government subversion and not just drop medical marijuana as a Schedule 1 Drug which falsely states that marijuana has no medical value. The longer we support officials, who support misinformation and the execution of misinformation through force, the more individual’s standard of living and life will suffer. The choice is yours…

schedule 1 period? must must either be stupid or never have tried it. THE END

he would have done it already.  Obama doesn't want legal cannabis, period.  He only pretended to in order to get the gullible to vote for him, I don't think those who took him at his word will be fooled next time.