Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Federal Appeals Court Won’t Change Marijuana’s ‘Dangerous Drug’ Classification

Federal Appeals Court Won’t Change Marijuana’s ‘Dangerous Drug’ Classification: In the debate over the legal status of marijuana, one of the major obstacles to more lenient federal treatment is the Drug Enforcement Administration’s classification of cannabis as a dangerous drug with no medical use. A federal appeals panel declined Tuesday to change that classification, finding that the DEA’s decision not to reschedule marijuana was not so improper that [...]/p