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Mr. Hudak will be discussing the often misunderstood impact of moving marijuana to a different schedule classification under the Controlled Substances Act.
Recent statements by President Obama, as well as a spate of new bipartisan marijuana bills introduced in Congress, have raised their hopes, suggesting that the feds may be open to downgrading marijuana's schedule classification in the near future.
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CSA created five schedules (classifications), with varying qualifications for a substance to be included in each; two federal agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Food and Drug Administration FDAA), determine which substances are added to or removed from the various schedules.
The FDA and DEA claimed that the lack of scientific data on medical marijuana motivated their decision not to change marijuana's Schedule I classification.
DEA spokesman Melvin Patterson said Tuesday that once the agency receives FDA's report, it will decide whether kratom should be regulated as a controlled substance and if so, into which schedule, or classification, it should be placed.
"While this announcement is a significant step toward better facilitating and expanding clinical investigations into cannabis' therapeutic efficacy," he said, "ample scientific evidence already exists to remove cannabis from its Schedule I classification and to acknowledge its relative safety compared to other scheduled substances, like opioids, and unscheduled substances, such as alcohol".
Downgrading the plant's Schedule I classification to a Schedule II could lead to retail chains making the herb available to customers with a prescription.
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.
The Schedule I classification hinders federal funding for further research into the benefits of cannabis.
Schedule I classification makes it difficult to conduct research on a substance, but not impossible.
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