Scheduling

Cannabis may not be a schedule one drug (no medical use) much longer. There is a hearing going on in California to decide if the Schedule Cannabis is in is Constitutional.

The text of Schedule I – which is, after all, what this hearing is all about – lays out a 3-part test; a drug is properly classified in Schedule I only if the drug:

“Has a high potential for abuse; and
Has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or lacks accepted safety for use in treatment under medical supervision.”

Nowadays, anyone with at least a 4th-grade education could confidently say that cannabis does not belong here!

I have been following the case and it is my opinion that the Feds threw it.

Which may explain the recent Justice Dept. move to legalize tribal production of cannabis. It is my understanding that the tribes are not subject to US taxes.

So why would the Feds be doing that? My guess is they want in on the taxes produced by sales. And they can’t do that if cannabis is Federally a schedule one drug.

My further guess is that they will set taxes high enough so they can continue busting people and support the Black Market. For a while. My position on cannabis taxes?

Until we treat cannabis like tomatoes people will still get killed over it. Eric Garner.