Marijuana as a schedule I drug is alleged, by the United States government, to be as "dangerous" as Ecstasy, LSD, mushrooms, and an assortment of laboratory-manufactured substances.
Marijuana is in the same category as acid for God's sake!
Schedule II drugs have some familiar names; cocaine, opium, methamphetamine, assorted barbiturates, amongst many other largely laboratory manufactured drugs. We all know how great of drugs speed, crack, and brown are, but apparently even cocaine has some "medicinal" qualities . . .
At least for the giant pharmo-chemical company that owns that patent!
So the marijuana plant is one of the deadliest plants God created, according to the United States government! Schedule I of course being:
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
Myself having read all of the pertinent court rulings regarding marijuana the government's assertion that marijuana has a "high potential for abuse" does not even pass the laugh test. Basically the courts have ruled that b/c some psychotic, or latently psychotic, teenagers may abuse marijuana, then marijuana must be illegal for all normal people. Luckily for you alcohol drinkers you have some sort of "noble" exception . . .
Excuse my language, but I shit you not! B/c an extreme minority of our population, an underage population who could not consume marijuana legally even if marijuana were legal, b/c this minority may potentially abuse marijuana, marijuana then possesses a "high potential for abuse" and must be illegal for all citizens. Har har har har
The feds have used inductive logic of the faultiest kind, picking one orange from a barrel of fruit and saying, "hey this whole barrel must be full of oranges". And apparently there is not an American lawyer capable of refuting this nonsense, which, surveying the landscape of American lawyers that rule over us, does not surprise me in the least! The "high potential for abuse" does not pass the laugh test, while the medicinal qualities of cannabis seem to be quite real, and of course, I do not need a doctor to show me how to consume a marijuana plant!
Also, I find it very hard to believe the Lord created the marijuana plant just so the United States government can persecute everybody who likes to grow and/or consume the plant: throw George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in prison; Bubba will take care of them! Har har har har . . .
The scheduling of marijuana is misguided ignorance at best, but in truth it is simply evil, and against our Lord and Creator! When organizations, groups of people, governments, outlaw the very fruit of the earth from other people then they stand against the will of our Creator as revealed to humanity in the Torah: then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food".
Amen
O btw.
Certain Native tribes use the "religious argument" to legally consume psychedelic mushrooms; but b/c marijuana is just so popular, and shrooms are not that prevalent of a religious/recreational/medicinal drug, marijuana then is subject to interstate commerce laws, unlike psychedelic shrooms:
so trade trumps God.
No religious exception for marijuana like psychedelic shrooms b/c marijuana, because a plant created by God, is just so popular, the trading of it will ramify throughout our nation!
So instead of "freely" trading the marijuana plant the government puts badges and guns on dudes so they can pull the plant out of the ground and arrest and imprison us!
I'm missing the punch-line here. O wait, the government has actually patented certain properties of the marijuana plant itself! The government owns the pot plant and I cannot have any?????? This is not nuclear waste created by giant nuclear facilities in the hands of private citizens here people; we are talking about a plant that grows out of the earth . . .
What next?!? Is the U.S. government going to patent the marijuana-like chemicals our own bodies produce and then declare that we have not natural rights over our own bodies? But having no natural rights to the dirt of the earth and the plants that grow from it, is outlawing us from our very selves!
On an even funnier note, the U.S. government asserts that b/c marijuana is so popular this proves just how dangerous it is! Yessirree! That people will break the law to consume marijuana proves that marijuana is "bad". The feds actually use this argument! Apparently nobody thought of this argument during alcohol prohibition! It is popular but apparently not popular enough eh?!? Har har har har . . .
The government's argumentation actually devolves to the point of asserting that some people may drive or go to work after smoking some herb! Apparently this argument does not also apply to alcohol; yet last I heard it is in fact illegal to drink and drive and I seek no "noble" exception for marijuana in this regard. I seek no, but suffer under, such double standard!
The only ramifications I see now are abundant materials and manpower devoted to fighting a war on a plant and against it's consumers, I see countless lives ruined and divested of personal possessions by legal persecution, I see Mexican children being gunned down by dudes that want to make a lot of money smuggling plant material into this country, I see the prison-industrial complex booming and heavily armed squads of badges garrisoning every city to fight a war against a plant and it's consumers: I see that all the wrong people have a vested interest in keeping the pot plant outlawed!
As previously noted, trade, i.e., money, trumps God!
Is this truly the will of we the people?
Peace