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February 15th, 2016 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote a letter to Thomas Friedan, director of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding marijuana’s possible role in alleviating the American opioid “epidemic” by replacing it with pot as a substitute painkiller.
Warren wrote concerning “opioid abuse [as] a national concern” and suggested that the agency could not only “finalize its guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain”, but consider the long-term effects of opioid use in children; as well as the questionable use of the synthetic opioid called fentanyl.
The senator asked for more researcher into the “impact of the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana on opioid overdose deaths … [and] the use, uptake and effectiveness of medical marijuana as an alternative to opioids for pain treatment in states where it is legal.”
This latest push for marijuana use with regard for medical conditions is becoming a regular occurrence with Warren. Last year she and several of her colleagues wrote a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); as well as the Office of National Drug Control Policy (NDCP) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) requesting governmental resources be used to “facilitate scientific research on the potential health benefits of marijuana when used for medical purposes.”
In this correspondence, Warren stated: “While the federal government has emphasized research on the potential harms associated with the use of marijuana. There is still very limited research on the potential health benefits of marijuana—despite the fact that millions of Americans are now eligible by state law to use the drug for medical purposes.”
In that same year, the HHS approved medical marijuana for research studies; however Warren believes that this effort should become a broader acceptance of the legalization of marijuana – beginning with the establishment of scientific research on its health benefits.
Cannabidiol (CBD) itself is named in the letter and the rescheduling of the medicinal molecule is requested for medicinal purposes.
Currently, CBD is listed as a Schedule I narcotic under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) which places it alongside heroin and LSD.
Along with the isolate, Warren asks if the federal government is “working to increase the supply of marijuana with high CBD content for researchers?”
The letter ends with a call for “moving forward with policies that facilitate the availability of medical marijuana” to patients and the “greater portion of the population” in order to ensure public health as “supported by our best science”.
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