{"id":6956,"date":"2016-08-11T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T06:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.org\/post\/148776858625"},"modified":"2016-08-11T06:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T06:48:26","slug":"dea-not-rescheduling-pot-rejects-governors-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/dea-not-rescheduling-pot-rejects-governors-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"DEA Not Rescheduling Pot &#8212; Rejects Governors\u2019 Petition."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/dea-not-rescheduling-pot-rejects-governors-petition\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>DEA Not Rescheduling Pot \u2013 Rejects Governors\u2019 Petition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"copy\" readability=\"32.19\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"254\" data-orig-width=\"450\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-orig-height=\"254\" data-orig-width=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dea-not-rescheduling-pot-rejects-governors-petition.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"254\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsociety%2F2016%2Faug%2F10%2Fmarijuana-medical-research-drug-laws-united-states-dea&#038;t=NzkzM2E0NTM1ZjM2MDdiNjhhNjlmOTZmOGViMWQ0MDU4MmJhY2NhZSxJM3BYRnE1Yw%3D%3D&#038;b=t%3AuymUCMuUkT4HVoZa7fFveQ&#038;m=1\">theguardian.com on August 10, 2016<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The US government will announce Thursday that it will allow more research into marijuana but rejected requests to loosen the classification of the substance as a dangerous drug with no medical use, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n<p> The decision, to be announced by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), is an answer to a 2011 petition filed by two former state governors who asked federal agencies to reclassify marijuana as a drug with accepted medical uses,\u2026<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsociety%2F2016%2Faug%2F10%2Fmarijuana-medical-research-drug-laws-united-states-dea&#038;t=NzkzM2E0NTM1ZjM2MDdiNjhhNjlmOTZmOGViMWQ0MDU4MmJhY2NhZSxJM3BYRnE1Yw%3D%3D&#038;b=t%3AuymUCMuUkT4HVoZa7fFveQ&#038;m=1\">For more click here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><i>John Entwistle says:<\/i> We are deeply disappointed and can only hope for executive action. On the other hand, President Nixon would be very pleased with this decision. It takes all types I guess. <\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s hard to accept but this whole scheduling conundrum was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.org\/post\/14736845978\/pot-history-101-president-nixon-and-the-shafer\">Nixon\u2019s plan to keep pot illegal<\/a> and it has held up through his administration, President Ford, President Carter, President Reagan, President Bush 41 &#038; 43., President Clinton and President Obama. What vision! <\/p>\n<p>On this occasion it seems fitting to revive and celebrate<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.org\/post\/16454232454\/richard-nixon-tells-all-marijuana-homosexuality\"> the wonderful logic behind his decision<\/a>. (Warning: this would be politically incorrect even to quote here it was so racist.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.org\/post\/148776858625\/dea-not-rescheduling-pot-rejects-governors\"> <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"254\" data-orig-width=\"450\"><img data-orig-height=\"254\" data-orig-width=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dea-not-rescheduling-pot-rejects-governors-petition.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/aug\/10\/marijuana-medical-research-drug-laws-united-states-dea\">theguardian.com on August 10, 2016<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The US government will announce Thursday that it will allow more research into marijuana but rejected requests to loosen the classification of the substance as a dangerous drug with no medical use, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n<p> The decision, to be announced by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), is an answer to a 2011 petition filed by two former state governors who asked federal agencies to reclassify marijuana as a drug with accepted medical uses,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/aug\/10\/marijuana-medical-research-drug-laws-united-states-dea\">For more click here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><i>John Entwistle says:<\/i> We are deeply disappointed and can only hope for executive action. On the other hand, President Nixon would be very pleased with this decision. It takes all types I guess. <\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s hard to accept but this whole scheduling conundrum was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.org\/post\/14736845978\/pot-history-101-president-nixon-and-the-shafer\">Nixon\u2019s plan to keep pot illegal<\/a> and it has held up through his administration, President Ford, President Carter, President Reagan, President Bush 41 &amp; 43., President Clinton and President Obama. What vision! <\/p>\n<p>On this occasion it seems fitting to revive and celebrate<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.org\/post\/16454232454\/richard-nixon-tells-all-marijuana-homosexuality\"> the wonderful logic behind his decision<\/a>. (Warning: this would be politically incorrect even to quote here it was so racist.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}