U.S. Gov’t Will Legalize Marijuana on August 1

If this information is true, we all know how the bureaucrats and the DEA in particular are great at telling partial truths… just enough to make you believe that things are in your favor but in the end it is all really some sort of smoke and mirrors.

Just think back to the Benghazi attack when one of our Diplomats and three other Americans were killed in Sept 2012 just before the Presidential election of Nov 2012..  Blamed on some indy film about Islam causing the uprising. The fact that it was on Sept 11,2012 the anniversary of the 911 attack on the twin towers in NY. If the truth came out… maybe Obama might not have been reelected.. because there was only 5 million votes between  him and Romney.

The timing of this alleged announcement by the DEA regarding MJ… after having turned down official requests to take MJ out of the C-I classification THREE DIFFERENT TIMES over the last 40 + yrs.

Could the DEA make this change in classification Aug 1st and then open a 90 day comment period and then after the Nov election… come out and say that the majority of comments were against the reclassification and rescind the proposed change after the election.

Let’s assume that they do announce a change to C-II classification…what exactly are they going to change.. there are all sorts of varieties of MJ and 100 components isolated and an estimated 300 more yet to be isolated.

Does changing the classification to C-II automatically make MJ a Legend Drug – Federal law prohibits dispensing without a prescription. Are they only going to reclassify components of  MJ once they have went thru clinical trials – which could take 10-15 yrs ?

Could they require new training for physicians that wish to prescribe MJ.. and special DEA license.. like they do with the prescribing of  Suboxone and limit the number of pt that a prescriber can have on MJ at any given point in time.

Could this be the point where insurance companies start refusing to pay for a Legend drug… no prior authorization, no appeal process, no exception to formulary coverage. Many of the larger PBM’s have stopped paying for pharmacy compounded products in the last couple of years.

Will this unwind the 26 states that have approved MJ/MMJ for sale legally… will this mean that all MJ dispensaries are going to have to become licensed pharmacies and have Pharmacists on staff…

Making MJ a C-II still leaves the substance under DEA’s control and just like they are causing wholesalers to ration supplies to pharmacies. Raiding prescriber’s offices to investigate what they consider over prescribing.

The number of potential “worms” in this  can that they are supposedly going to open could be close to an invasion.

The government never does anything without an alternative motive … a game plan to create a larger bureaucracy or way to increase their budgets and/or revenues.

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U.S. Gov’t Will Legalize Marijuana on August 1

Federal preemption means weed will be legal in all 50 states, with a prescription

http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/06/18/news/us-govt-will-legalize-marijuana-on-august-1/1484.html

The U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration will make marijuana a “Schedule Two” drug on August 1, 2016, essentially making it legal in all 50 states with a prescription, said a DEA lawyer with knowledge of the matter.

When questioned by our reporter, the DEA lawyer was forced to admit the truth to our reporter, because he had told the lawyer for a DEA informant of the DEA’s intentions: Pot will become legal nationwide on August 1.

“Whatever the law may be in California, Arizona or Utah or any other State, because of Federal preemption this will have the effect of making THC products, legal with the prescription in all 50 states,” he told the Observer. Federal Preemption is a doctrine that where the US Government has rules on a matter, State and local laws are overridden and of no effect.

He explained that “there are five DEA schedules. Nothing on Schedule One is ever legal, and that is where Cannabis is today. Schedule Two drugs are available with a prescription.”

On Schedule Two, marijuana will join drugs like Percocet, Xanax, Oxycontin, Abilify and other drugs that are legal, even common, with a prescription. There also other drugs that are not on any schedules but that are illegal on a federal level, he said. Drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen are available over-the-counter.

“In my opinion, CVS pharmacy, Rite-Aid and Walgreens will sell schedule 2 THC products, what we call edibles today, but will not sell smokable weed because of the health risk smoking anything entails,” said the DEA lawyer

He opined that the 135 clinic owners in Los Angeles will no doubt oppose this move by the Federal government, because it will mean there is no reason for people to visit medical marijuana clinics.

The DEA Attorney who spoke to us, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak to the press about the matter, speculated that this action will be taken in the closing days of US Presidential election, so as to motivate the Democratic base to turn out and vote for Hillary Clinton, and other down ballot candidates. She will certainly not reverse this policy decision in the waning days of the Obama administration, he said, and Donald Trump might.

Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is in favor of legalizing marijuana and in fact owns a business where he sells pot in New Mexico.

Medical cannabis, or medical marijuana, can refer to the use of cannabis and its cannabinoids to treat disease or improve symptoms; However, there is no single agreed upon definition, says Wikipedia. The use of cannabis as a medicine has not been rigorously scientifically tested, often due to production restrictions and other governmental regulations. There is limited evidence suggesting cannabis can be used to reduce nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy, to improve appetite in people with HIV/AIDS, and to treat chronic pain and muscle spasms. Its use for other medical applications, however, is insufficient for conclusions about safety or efficacy.

In California, there are “weed doctors” who will write a prescription for cannabis to anyone claiming to suffer from anxiety, which means they passout prescriptions for pot like chocolate bars at a Halloween party. As with so many other trends that started in California, expect to see medicinal marijuana sold in your town soon!

Medical cannabis can be administered using a variety of methods, including liquid tinctures, vaporizing or smoking dried buds, eating cannabis edibles, taking capsules, using lozenges, dermal patches or oral/dermal sprays. Synthetic cannabinoids are available as prescription drugs in some countries; examples include: dronabinol and nabilone.

Recreational use of cannabis is illegal in most parts of the world, but the medical use of cannabis is legal in certain countries, including Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands (where it is also legal recreationally), Portugal and Spain. Australia is currently in the process of passing a law which would allow the use of marijuana for medical and scientific purposes.

In the United States, federal law outlaws all cannabis use, while 25 states and the District of Columbia no longer prosecute individuals for the possession or sale of medical marijuana, as long as the individuals are in compliance with the state’s medical marijuana sale regulations. However, an appeals court ruled in January 2014 that a 2007 Ninth Circuit ruling remains binding in relation to the ongoing illegality, in federal legislative terms, of Californian cannabis dispensaries, reaffirming the impact of the federal Controlled Substances Act.

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DEA and Local Law Enforcement Raid Care By Design Cannabis Company

The DEA has been instructed by Pres Obama, AG Holder, Law passed by Congress and Federal Court ruling that the DEA should LEAVE ALONE those states and those entities within those states that are abiding by the State laws concerning the sale of MMJ and MJ.  Has the DEA become OMNIPOTENT and/or has those that the DEA is support to report to become  IMPOTENT.  Is it time to de-fund or dismantle the DEA ?

I was contacted by someone who was a Chartered Financial Analyst that took exception to me printing the entire article… under the “fair use” doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use which I understood that as long as you provided a link back to the original article.. copy right issues were covered.  But apparently the outfit behind this article take a narrow view of this doctrine. 

I have taken this way of posting other articles for four years and nearly TEN THOUSAND posts without anyone taking exception until now.. I have used this process because I have found that from time to time… content of links have tended to DISAPPEAR from the web for whatever reason.

IMO.. the content of their article was not all that important.. just that the DEA was ignoring everyone and every entity that they are suppose to be supervised by.

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New Report Takes Down DEA for Blocking Scientific Research On Marijuana

New Report Takes Down DEA for Blocking Scientific Research On Marijuana

A new report from the Drug Policy Alliance and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies is taking the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to task for some four decades of obstruction when it comes to scientific research on cannabis.

Soon after the Controlled Substances Act became law in the early 1970’s, activists began petitioning the DEA to take marijuana out of Schedule I, where it categorizes drugs that have a high possibility for addiction and no accepted medical use. Three times the DEA has dragged its feet on deciding on the petitions (denying all three), blocking the very research they say they need to take marijuana out of Schedule I, thereby creating an impossible situation for those looking to get cannabis either rescheduled or unscheduled.

This means that bureaucrats at the DEA have been actively obstructing research on cannabis, something tens of millions of people have used to treat various ailments over the years. Which means the DEA has been directly contributing to the suffering of tens of millions of people who couldn’t access a good supply of cannabis to treat their ailments over the last 40 years.

People who lived their daily lives in pain and misery for decades and died without finding relief — people who had terminal illnesses who weren’t legally allowed to obtain or smoke a joint to relieve some of their agony — people who paid taxes that paid the budget of the DEA, while the bureaucrats who took that money blocked the very research that would lead to a safer and more abundant supply of the medicine. Medicine that would have made the quality of life of so many immeasurably better.

That’s your government at work. Screwing the people 24/7/365.

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Ex-DEA Agent: US Tolerant of Central American Drug Corruption

http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/ex-dea-agent-us-tolerant-of-central-american-drug-corruption

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Feds offer another bungling approach to healthcare

http://onenewsnow.com/pro-life/2016/06/17/feds-offer-another-bungling-approach-to-healthcare

The federal government may be showing how inept it is at dealing with health issues in a bill recently filed in Congress.

Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) has introduced a bill that would force pharmacists to personally dispense contraceptives, the “morning-after” pill, and the “week-after” pill – and would not allow them to pass the prescription to another pharmacist.

Karen Brauer, who heads Pharmacists for Life International, explains that Booker’s “Access to Birth Control Act” leaves no “out” of any kind for pharmacists.

“Some of the articles that are out there imply that it only addresses the morning-after pill or what’s called ’emergency’ contraception, but it actually addresses all birth-control pills, devices or whatever can be dispensed at a pharmacy,” she says. 

That law would be required regardless of a pharmacist’s objection based on faith or conscience. Then again, it leaves a pharmacist open for a lawsuit, for example, for refusing to sell “Plan B” to a woman even if for non-religious reasons.

“The morning-after pill doesn’t work enough to be taken if a woman weighs 165 pounds or more,” she adds. “If she weighs 175 pounds, it doesn’t work at all.”

So if a pharmacist declines to sell it for that reason, Brauer explains, an offended customer could sue – meaning it places a burden on any pharmacist, not just those whose faith would prohibit it. In addition to facing a possible lawsuit, a pharmacist violating the law could face fines of $1,000 a day up to a maximum $100,000.

“The federal government has shown a real capacity to be stupid with respect to healthcare, and this bill, in the way it’s written, is proof of that,” Brauer tells OneNewsNow.

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Corporate Sponsors Opt Out of Republican Convention

http://time.com/4373023/companies-republican-convention-donald-trump/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20timeblogs%2Fswampland%20%28TIME%3A%20Politics%29

The companies won’t explain why

It would seem that even though THE PEOPLE have decided who is going to be their respective Presidential candidate…  It would appear that part of the BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT has decided to in a word “BOYCOTT” sponsoring the Republican Convention… as they have in years past. Sounds sort of like when you were a kid and someone is unhappy and “taking their ball” and going home.. because things were not going THEIR WAY.  Maybe they are concerned that if TRUMP get elected their LOBBY MONEY won’t be buying any favors and increased profits for them.  Maybe the customers of these companies and don’t agree with their actions should consider their own “reduced sponsorship” of these businesses ?

Major companies are deciding not to sponsor this summer’s Republican convention in Cleveland, or are limiting their sponsorship.

According to Bloomberg, Wells Fargo & Co., United Parcel Service Inc., Motorola Solutions Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Ford Motor Co., and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., companies that sponsored the GOP convention in 2012, have all signaled they won’t offer the same level of support this year.

In a statement provided to TIME, Erika Reynoso, a spokeswoman for Wells Fargo, said, “We are supporting the City of Philadelphia host committee given our significant community bank and team member presence,” referring to the location of the Democratic convention. “Our decisions around the host committees were determined late last year before either party determined the nominees. This is consistent with our past practices.”

A spokesperson for Walgreens told TIME, “Walgreens Boots Alliance is involved in sponsoring events at both the Republican and Democratic national conventions,” though the company will not sponsor host committee events in Cleveland.

Many of the companies did not comment publicly about their reasons for dropping sponsorship or whether the controversial nomination of Donald Trump played a part.

Some top Republicans have also considered skipping the convention.

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First email in my inbox this AM

I read a very informative piece by you:   http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/content/tags/chronic-pain/when-valid-prescriptions-are-refused?page=full and I was wondering if you still advocate for rights of those who have been violated by a pharmacist? 

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