Clinton vows to reschedule marijuana
The DEA wouldn’t do it, but Hillary Clinton wants to.
Click here for reuse options!On Thursday, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced it won’t reschedule marijuana from a Scheduled I controlled substance, meaning that in the eyes of the feds it’ll continue to be regarded as dangerous drug with no medical value, akin to heroin and bath salts…
In a statement published yesterday in the Cannabist, Maya Harris, a senior policy adviser to the Clinton campaign, applauded the DEA’s concurrent move to loosen restrictions on growing marijuana for research — and indicated Clinton will go even further to accomplish what Obama has failed to so far.
“We applaud the steps taken today by the Obama Administration to remove research barriers that have significantly limited the scientific study of marijuana,” Harris said. “Marijuana is already being used for medical purposes in states across the country, and it has the potential for even further medical use. As Hillary Clinton has said throughout this campaign, we should make it easier to study marijuana so that we can better understand its potential benefits, as well as its side effects.”
“As president, Hillary will build on the important steps announced today by rescheduling marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance,” she continued. “She will also ensure Colorado, and other states that have enacted marijuana laws, can continue to serve as laboratories of democracy.”
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Larry Schmitt August 12th, 2016 at 17:12
According to what I read, it was originally classified as dangerous because of pressure from the DuPonts, who didn’t want the competition from hemp. And in this country, big business rules, and once an idea gets entrenched, it’s the devil’s work to get it undone.
arc99 August 12th, 2016 at 17:23
I had heard that too.
But apparently, they needed a more compelling reason than protecting market share for the DuPonts. So they came up with this. In the 1930’s, protecting against scary dark skinned people was always a sure fire winner.
This comes from an official serving in the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt.
http://web.mit.edu/cultureshock/fa2009/Walker2.html
Because of the popularity Jazz music had with many white youths, some regarded jazz and marijuana as immoral and leading to the social and sexual mixing of the races. Nowhere is this link most exploited than in the writings of the first Commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics, Harry J. Anslinger:
“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others….”
Larry Schmitt August 12th, 2016 at 17:26
I knew about that too. Gotta keep the brown people down.
StoneyCurtisll August 12th, 2016 at 17:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbjHOBJzhb0
Red Mann August 12th, 2016 at 20:01
I read something years ago, that a major part of Anslinger’s motivation was jealousy over the attention, and funds, that J. Edgar Hoover was getting so he drummed up the Reefer Madness nonsense.
bpollen August 13th, 2016 at 03:56
There was always a racial element in the drug war… Good people (whitey) don’t do drugs, it’s “them” (P.O.C) who are causing our civilization to crumble, with their licentious lifestyles and low morals.
Red Mann August 12th, 2016 at 19:57
According to John Erlichman, although disputed by others, Nixon’s motivation in the war on drugs was to find a way to criminalize blacks and hippies.
whatthe46 August 13th, 2016 at 04:42
you’re absolutely right.
““You want to know what this was really all about,” Ehrlichman, who died
in 1999, said, referring to Nixon’s declaration of war on drugs. “The
Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two
enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m
saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war
or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with
marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily,
we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid
their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night
on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of
course we did.”” ~John Erlichman
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2016/03/top-adviser-richard-nixon-admitted-war-drugs-was-policy-tool-go-after-anti-war-proteste
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judge-frederic-block/war-on-drugs_b_2384624.html
makes for good reading
Red Mann August 13th, 2016 at 13:31
Yet another, as if we needed it, of conservative “ethics”. What is really a bummer is that the Rethuglicans have been sinking lower and lower since the Tricky Dicky days. Trump may seem to be the lowest they can go, but experience says there is no low limit.
whatthe46 August 13th, 2016 at 04:51
cocaine is a “white mans” drug, and when caught with pounds of it, it’s not a biggie. “crack” is considered a “poor/minority” mans drug and therefore, they receive the harshest punishment. i just watched a movie where it was 7 young white men, 20, 21 or so, and they were drug traffickers (pot) and made millions. when caught, the leader got 12 years, the rest received as little as 6 months. this was definitely a war against blacks.
Larry Schmitt August 13th, 2016 at 07:38
And the minimum sentences were also aimed at blacks. The harshest sentences, given to non-violent small-time users, went to black users of crack. Even if the judges had wanted to impose a shorter sentence, they had no choice. So thousands of people, mostly black, who got caught smoking crack got 20 years or more.
StoneyCurtisll August 12th, 2016 at 17:32
Hillary 2016, (cough)~!
Sounds good to me…
crc3 August 12th, 2016 at 19:41
You go girl!!
Gary Parillo August 13th, 2016 at 01:06
After 70 years,moving it down a notch from schedule one to schedule two.Thats a step in the right direction,but seventy years? Maybe in another seventy they will put it on schedule 3 .That would only be a total of 140 years! And maybe by the twenty second century it will be legal like it was once before and should be now!
bpollen August 13th, 2016 at 03:52
Okay, but schedule it at least twice daily!
(I’m saying that for a friend…)