Sigh the CARERS ACT petition!

http://www.theweedblog.com/pass-the-carers-act-and-protect-medical-marijuana-patients/

https://www.change.org/p/pass-the-carers-act-and-protect-medical-marijuana-patients

I'm not sure CARERS is in our best interests. I believe Schedule 2 status requires drugs to be prepared by a pharmacist, which would be tough for flower. I think this gives the green light for pharmacy companies to use the helpful molecules to develop drugs (think Marinol) but will shut out legal MMJ as we know it. Forget growing at home.

Once the pharm companies have what they want, the crackdown can recommence- the Feds use their funding as leverage until states capitulate.

Let's remember, today's America is for corporations, period

bluto392 said:

I'm not sure CARERS is in our best interests. I believe Schedule 2 status requires drugs to be prepared by a pharmacist, which would be tough for flower. I think this gives the green light for pharmacy companies to use the helpful molecules to develop drugs (think Marinol) but will shut out legal MMJ as we know it. Forget growing at home.

Once the pharm companies have what they want, the crackdown can recommence- the Feds use their funding as leverage until states capitulate.

Let's remember, today's America is for corporations, period

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So that's worse than it staying schedule I? IMO it would never be classified as anything lower than II. So are you holding out for complete drug reform and a new classification system?

I'd prefer to have it legalized outright. My problem with schedule 2 is that it will force marijuana to be processed into a form which can be dosed out effectively by a pharmacist.

There's no reason for the govt to move forward after the health benefits can be encapsulated in a non psychoactive pill

bluto392 said:

I'd prefer to have it legalized outright. My problem with schedule 2 is that it will force marijuana to be processed into a form which can be dosed out effectively by a pharmacist.

There's no reason for the govt to move forward after the health benefits can be encapsulated in a non psychoactive pill

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I'm not sure you understand how the system works and how it will have to be until drug/medical reform happens, if ever. Which by the way will take much more time and money than legalizing weed. So making it completely legal doesn't change the fact that it indeed is a drug. A drug which doctors will and can currently prescribe to patients. A drug must have a classification. Every drug does. Advil is fully legal yet it still has a drug classification just like any medication. My point is that it's very unlikely that cannabis will ever be lower than schedule II but in order to get it to schedule III or IV, something has to give and this is it.

Okay. But when the Feds say, hey mmj legal state, you can't have dispensaries without pharmacists, and you can't dose out flower, and you can't have private grows, you'll understand what I'm talking about