The American Medical Association has finally ruled that Cannabis shouldn't be Schedule 1!
Yesterday, NORML published this news.. the AMA has called for Cannabis (marijuana) to be rescheduled.
Now that’s a headline! The very basis for the drug war was the classification of Cannabis as a ‘schedule 1′ drug. For the last 30 years Cannabis has been vilified and classified as a drug more potent and dangerous than crack or cocaine. Here’s to some profound policy changes all across the land. Here’s to some profound policy changes right here at home, in Hawai’i County.
Yesterday it was announced that the AMA has voted to reverse its longstanding endorsement of cannabis’ Schedule I prohibitive status.
According to a posting on NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws): “The vote took place during the organization’s annual Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates in Houston, Texas, and marks the first time that the AMA has revisited its position on cannabis in eight years.
Take note everybody. A ‘house of cards’ that has teetered and swayed over us for 30 years is now coming down.
This is huge news! The War on Drugs has been built on a lie and it looks like the lie just doesn’t have anymore hold on us. It’s curtains for the Drug War. May the “Wicked Witch” (as pictured above) finally take a bow and leave the rest of us in peace.
Hawai’i County Officials.. are you listening? This is especially important news to those of you who are still making public statements that our Lowest Law Enforcement Priority of Cannabis Ordianance doesn’t mean anything to you because according to State and Federal law, Cannabis is still a ‘dangerous & illegal drug’. Please take note that the ground beneath you is shifting. The voters in this County have spoken and now, while you are still dragging your feet, you’re seeing changes on the National level.
Spread the word! and for more information.. check out the story as it was posted on the NORML website:
http://blog.norml.org/2009/11/10/ama-calls-for-ending-the-schedule-i-lie/
Malicious prosecutions
Schedule one marijuana prosecutions are ill advised, a fraudulent use of the law and illegitimate. I3 States have medical marijuana programs. The federal government grows marijuana and provides it to patients under court order. Thousands of doctors recommend patients use marijuana for a wide range of illnesses. The AMA while definitely late to acknowledge that Marijuana has recognized medical uses in the United States, and should be removed from schedule 1 in the CSA, has now said so. Politicians, police agencies, prosecutors, and courts have no right to ignore the law or the medical experts that prove marijuana does in fact have recognized medical use in the United States.
The federal government and most states prosecutes marijuana crimes as schedule 1 violations of the CSA. Most States follow or base their marijuana laws directly or in part on the federal law, and require those laws be amended or reviewed as such. Federal law says a schedule one drug has no recognized medical use.
Any reasonable mind will easily recognize that marijuana does not meet the criteria to be classified schedule 1. Marijuana is and has been legally recommended by doctors and used by patients in the United States since at least 1996. The states and federal government are prosecuting Americans on a law that is fatally flawed. We have reached the point when this becomes willful malicious prosecution.
A civil suit against those individuals and agencies that are misusing these laws is long over due. Any one charging or prosecuting Americans using a schedule 1 statute for marijuana crimes is at best negligent and more likely maliciously abusing the statutes.