#Doctors have reported for decades that marijuana’s federal Schedule I status—designating it as a drug as dangerous as heroin—blocks basic drug #trials. A generation of patients has undertaken those trials on themselves. (Ninety-two percent of medical cannabis users reported efficacy in one state survey in 2014.) Currently, 38 states have legalized cannabis medically or for all adults, yet ‘marijuana’ remains a Schedule I substance.
The new Act—sponsored by Sen. Dianne #Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. #Chuck #Grassley (R-IA), and eight other senators—doesn’t change weed’s Schedule I status. But it does force the federal government to allow more #researchers to #grow medical #cannabis, and allows doctors to talk about pot without fear of losing their medical license, as well as other modest tweaks. About 91% of #Americans support medical #marijuana legalization, Pew Research finds. About 68% of Americans support full legalization. But Sen. Feinstein—a long-serving #Democrat representing the largest legal cannabis market on the planet, which did $5.1 billion in legal sales last year—is focused on further research, not legalizing it federally.
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