Among those drugs listed in the less restrictive Schedule II are methamphetamine and opium.
In late October, the Food and Drug Administration made the front page of the Times by announcing that it would recommend moving drugs like Vicodin, which combine hydrocodone with over-the-counter painkillers, to the restrictive Schedule II class of drugs.
By Cathryn Jakobson Ramin December 2, 2013 In late October, the Food and Drug Administration made the front page of the Times by announcing that it would recommend moving drugs like Vicodin, which combine hydrocodone with over-the-counter painkillers, to the restrictive Schedule II class of drugs.
In comparison, pentazocine is in Schedule IV and the analgesic opioids are in the much more restrictive Schedule II.
By ruling that there is not enough evidence of "currently accepted medical use"—a key distinction between the highly restrictive Schedule I classification and the less restrictive Schedule II the administration essentially makes it harder to gather such evidence.
Because of regulatory conditions and international treaties alike, which include cannabis on the most restrictive schedules alongside drugs like heroin and fentanyl, no amount of state-level legalization has proven able to entice the financial industry off of the sidelines and into the game.
Cocaine and methamphetamine are among the drugs listed below marijuana in the less restrictive Schedule II category.
But not one of the methods popularized by the trend involve a nearly as restrictive schedule as the one Dorsey describes.
"This can mean that physicians have to use substitutes or pharmaceutical formulations that aren't ideal as is already the case currently for medicines on the least restrictive schedule, Schedule IV, of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances," says Christophe Perrin.
Meanwhile, regular marijuana will continue to be listed alongside heroin in the more restrictive Schedule I category, which is reserved for drugs that have "no currently accepted medical use" and "a high potential for abuse".
He's begun circulating a letter to the president among other members of Congress, seeking signers who will ask that marijuana be stricken from the controlled substances categories or at least moved to a less restrictive schedule.
