I have already opined on my disapproval of a medical marijuana law recently passed in Ohio. Once of my points in that piece is that I did not want legislators making medical decisions for us. They can’t even do their own jobs. I am not against medical marijuana; I am for science. The currency of determining the safety and efficacy of a medicine should be medical evidence, not faith, hope or belief. Marijuana is a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Schedule 1 drug, alongside heroin, LSD and Ecstasy. I realize this seems odd since most of us do not believe that marijuana has the health or addictive risks of the other agents on the list. It doesn’t. But, danger is not the only criteria used in determining which category a drug belongs in, a point often misunderstood or ignored by medical marijuana enthusiasts. An important criterion of Schedule 1 drugs is that they are deemed to have no proven medical use. The federal government recently affirmed marijuana’s Schedule 1 status
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