The DEA Says ‘Marijuana Is Not Medicine’ — Reality Says Otherwise

May 31, 2017

In another round of the-Earth-is-flat declarations, Chuck Rosenberg, acting administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), reiterated last week that “marijuana is not medicine.” This, despite numerous published studies, one that came out just last week, affirming that cannabis is indeed a medicine with proven evidence that it can fight chronic pain and many other diseases, including spasms due to multiple sclerosis, The Hill reports.

This is getting to be a tired refrain. Medical cannabis is a vastly underutilized therapeutic option that has been wrongly vilified by the DEA. Time and again, it’s been shown that cannabinoids in cannabis — cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — interact with your body by way of naturally-occurring cannabinoid receptors embedded in cell membranes throughout your body. It has proven beneficial influence on the aging brain, and on pain receptors and muscles.

Yet, the DEA continues to insist medical cannabis cannot help people, and has even reclassified CBD as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, putting it on par with LSD and heroin. Clearly, medical marijuana doesn’t meet the criteria as a Schedule 1 drug, especially since CBD has no psychoactive component, meaning it cannot render you "high."

So why is the DEA so blind? Perhaps it has to do more with Big Pharma, for if marijuana were decriminalized nationwide, the drug industry clearly would take a big hit. The sad fact is that drug companies are fighting to shut down the legalization of marijuana in order to maintain their drug monopoly, beginning with their opioid market, which would be severely threatened by marijuana legalization.

Personally, I believe there are many still undiscovered benefits of taking cannabis therapeutically. There are no real downsides; no major adverse effects. Even the psychoactive side effects are only related to the heating of the plant, and even then they're temporary and largely self-limiting.

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