Controlled Substances:  Proposed Adjustments to the Aggregate Production Quotas for Difenoxin, Diphenoxylate (for conversion), and Marijuana
2015-05-06 2015-04-13 2015-04-13 2015-04-22 2015-04-13
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Before increasing the amount of the drug that the DEA needs, I think we should consider having a long needed national debate about whether or not Marijuana should be in the Schedule 1 category.  If it is going to remain in this category, the government should not be growing it period.  Therefore I disagree. In my humble opinion, the DEA should approve of an increase of Cannabis production to ten times the amount currently set for studies of its medical efficacy. It appears that this may not be enough as studies throughout history has already proven the medical efficacy of the Cannabis Plant. As far back as 1974, proof of the medical efficacy of the plant was established and promptly ignored by the DEA... http://www.alternet.org/story/9257/pot_shrinks_tumors%3B_government_knew_in_74. It seems that we really are dealing with the most beneficial plant on Gods Green Earth. Yet our Government unwisely chooses Prohibition. Perhaps we can investigate how an American DEA has chosen to ignore scientific fact, continued on a ruinous Cannabis Prohibition that has had our system of governance stepping far away from the established sciences, and that has completely and legally devastated the lives of so many Americans. This incompetence cannot stand. We are a Nation of Freedom and Liberty that works best wihtin the Natural Order. Judging by this failure to capitalize on knowledge we had as far back as 1974, Im not even sure that ten times the amount of Cannabis would be sufficient to provide the DEA with enough evidence to get it to finally accept  the fact that Cannabis is a beneficial plant.To take things further, I have learned that the Prohibition against Industrial Agricultural Hemp is based on Junk Science and Politics. The truth be told, it appears the real basis for this wretched Cannabis Prohibition is simply a machine called the Decorticator. This machine allowed a huge increase in the harvest of Hemp and this threatened the fortunes of a pulp wood baron. From that, it appears that this Prohibition was concocted by Robber Barons, Corrupt Bankers, and Corrupt Law Enforcement. The inventor of the Decorticator died penniless and many an Off Shore Drug Lord, Robber Baron, Corrupt Banker and Lawman have made fortunes. Over 24 Million Americans have gone to Prison for using the most beneficial plant on Gods Green Earth, enough to fill a Super Bowl Stadium 460 times. It also appears that this enforcement of the Cannabis Prohibition through a multitude of arrests and Marihuana Tax Stamps were merely being used to stampede the American Farmer out of the iHemp business. Mankind has used all forms of Cannabis for thousands of years. Our Founding Fathers grew it by the ton. They referred to Cannabis as a Gift of Divine Providence. What happened to our Common Sense?  Our American Cannabis Prohibition is nothing short of the worst public policy miscalculation in American History. Being a veteran, I find it odd that my fellow veterans and countrymen are free to grow and use cannabis, yet if I were to do so here in West Virginia, I would be imprisoned and my property would be confiscated. How American is that? I find it odd that many other Nations that we fought and died for, in an effort to insure their freedom, are now free to use all forms of Cannabis, and we Americans are not. America is now the only industrialized Nation in the world without an Industrial Hemp program. And the DEA dares to claim its all because of some horrid belief that getting high on marihuana poses a grave danger to our health. Rubbish! Youve known the truth since 1974 and yet today, youve ignored the science from all over the world.So please, with all due haste, continue on with your increase in production of marijuana so you can study it some more. I think its safe to say if the DEA were to objectively review the results on hand at this very moment, it could easily conclude that this Cannabis Prohibition has been nothing short of a dismal failure and this so called War on Drugs is nothing less than a War on the American People. We are a far better society than what weve been served by the DEA. Unfortunately, due to this revelation of the knowledge the DEA has possessed for decades now, any of your conclusions are instantly suspect. Lying is lying and liars have a way of deceiving anyone and everyone. We are Americans and we have been lied to by our very own Government over a very beneficial plant so as to insure the fortunes of nefarious men of design. We are not free as you claim. History will not treat this Cannabis Prohibition well. If I were to possess a magical power to undo this mess America has gotten itself into, I would. As it is, I would strongly urge the DEA and all other National entities that support the Cannabis Prohibition to reconsider your position. If you outlaw nature and its bounties, you are imprisoning Freedom and Liberty. An objective review of the bottom line results of your efforts prove the point. At this time you have failed the American ideals of our Revolution. America does not accept failure in its bureaucratic management teams. Your only way out is to cease this unwise Cannabis Prohibition immediately. Your mission is to insure the Quality and Certainty to the next American Cannabis Industry. You need both THC and CBD to get high.  Marinol will not get you high.  Marinol is pure THC made by chromatography tube from another substance.  Please consider this.  Thank you. I support the DEAs request. Medical cannabis production for the use of determining its benefits and/or detriments must be allowed and the regulations for those studies suspended or revoked. The DEA should also, in the process of increasing its production of cannabis for this research, suspend restrictions on individuals who use cannabis for those medical purposes to allow for their research to include said individuals.Politics aside, the best interests of the people should be considered above all. The costliest and most ineffective war in history is the War on Drugs, especially when cannabis is the controlled substance most often vilified. As a substance that is unprocessed, unfermented, naturally produced and providing numerous beneficial uses, the restrictions of cannabis should be immediately repealed. Over $1 trillion tax dollars spent, with much of it wasted on cannabis related interdiction.As a man of GOD, I have never condoned the abuse of any drug, including those legalized drugs that have proven to be harmful to the physical body as well as detrimental to our society as it relates to my beliefs, (i.e. tobacco, alcohol and other drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth, LSD and other man-made/manufactured substances). However, this one substance that has no evidence of causing those aforementioned effects is still being touted as a villain. DUIs, DWIs  and other effects of consuming those substances cannot be attributed to cannabis use. And I do not use nor condone the use of cannabis, but only since it is illegal to do so and I am morally inclined to respect and uphold the law. Were it not so, I would probably be a responsible consumer of cannabis. For medicinal and possibly recreational purposes, as well.My mother, who recently passed, suffered from cancer, dementia, hypertension, arthritis and diabetes. There has been astounding research done prior to her death, (but not by the FDA or DEA), concluding that most of these serious conditions have been halted and/or reversed by the use of medicines derived from cannabis. CBD, CB1, CB2, and other medicines derived from the cannabinoids in this plant. While it cannot be proven that CBD could have helped my mother, that possiblity is ever present in my mind. Please, remove the stigma from this natural plant first by calling it by its taxonomic nomenclature, cannabis, verses its derogatory slang, marijuana and perform honest, transparent research.Sincerely.Rev Dana D Jones, SrPastorKoinonia Christian Fellowship What if marijuana and its cannabinoid components worked to help prevent cancers, and The DEA removing them from our food (hemp) and medicine actually were the primary reason cancers were able to survive, thrive and kill their host. The DEA would be responsible for every preventable cancer related death much like big tobacco since the 1930s. Especially since we knew about marijuanas potential since the 1970s.Michelle Leonhart is allowing people to needlessly suffer unimaginable death while she rants about how bad drugs are. Well she is the devil herself while she denys people medicine based on the principals of marijuana prohibition. Its no longer about marijuanas affect on the degenerate races - (H. Anslinger), its about the truth and stopping the pain and suffering of so many.As someone who has experienced the pain of cancer first hand I can honestly say there are much worse things than marijuana that we can use for pain, and Im referring to opiate based pharmaceutical drugs my doctors offered me.