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April 19th, 2016 
Awake Goy
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is expected to review the Schedule I classification of marijuana and remove it from its current designation as one of the world’s most dangerous drugs by the end of 2016.
But the problem started in 1972 when then Nixon administration’s Attorney General John Mitchell placed marijuana on the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Mitchell claimed that marijuana did not have any medicinal value and had never previously been determined to be a medicine.
Russ Baer, staff coordinator for the DEA’s Office of Congressional and Public Affairs (CPA) explained: “There’s no safe, effective medical use, and a high abuse potential, and it can’t be used in medical settings.”
Going back to the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act , cannabis prohibition was promptly approved amidst racism and New Deal reforms by way of restricting possession and use of marijuana via the medical and industrial industries. In addition, marijuana was removed from the US Pharmacopeia in 1942.
Martin Lee, historian and author of Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana, demonstrated how “in segregating American newspapers” articles were published saying that marijuana “makes white women and black men have sex.”
Immediately pot peddlers were arrested, but in 1944, the La Guardia Committee published a report via the New York Academy of Medicine that questioned the cannabis prohibition because the plant was found to not be addictive; nor a gateway drug for other criminal activities.
This report proved to be useless in releasing marijuana from its stigma. In 1969, the US Supreme Court ruled that purchasing a marijuana tax stamp amounted to self-incrimination.
President Nixon believed that marijuana could be used to thwart the antiwar activists. In recorded conversations, Nixon said: “I want a goddamn strong statement on marijuana. Can I get that out of this sonofabitching, uh, domestic council? … I mean one on marijuana that just tears the ass out of them.”
He convened the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse (NCMDA) to provide bogus science that supported Nixon’s claim that cannabis was dangerous.
But the NCMDA recommended that the prohibition on cannabis end in 1972 which was a problem because AG Mitchell placed the plant on the Schedule I in that same year.
The current temperament is changing with regard to marijuana. According to Colin Roberts, pediatric neurologist and director of the Doernbecher Childhood Epilepsy Program at OHSU, if marijuana were “not a Schedule 1 substance, I could enlist a lab at the university that could verify for me what these products are and measure them. Currently because it’s a Schedule I substance, I can’t do that.”
Roberts insists: “What we really need in the medical community is really good data, because if we don’t have that we will never understand the impact of these products good and bad. We need to know that and we are not going to be able to generate data at the level that it’s recognized nationally and internationally with these kinds of restrictions in place.”
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