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Friday, August 12, 2016
U.S. won’t reclassify marijuana
Will allow more research
into drug’s medical uses
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Obama
administration has decided marijuana
will remain on the list of most-dan-
gerous drugs, fully rebufing growing
support across the country for broad
legalization, but said it will allow more
research into its medical uses.
The decision to expand research
into marijuana’s medical potential
could pave the way for the drug to be
moved to a lesser category. Heroin,
peyote and marijuana, among others,
are considered Schedule I drugs
because they have no medical applica-
tion; cocaine and opiates, for example,
have medical uses and, while still
illegal for recreational use, are desig-
nated Schedule II drugs.
The Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion said the agency’s decision came
after a lengthy review and consultation
with the Health and Human Services
Department, which said marijuana
“has a high potential for abuse” and
“no accepted medical use.” The deci-
sion means that pot will remain illegal
for any purpose under federal law,
despite laws in 25 states and District of
Columbia that have legalized pot for
either medicinal or recreational use.
Advocates have long pushed for the
federal government to follow suit.
“If the scientiic understanding
about marijuana changes — and it
could change — then the decision
could change,” DEA acting admin-
istrator Chuck Rosenberg wrote in a
letter to the governors of Rhode Island
and Washington, who sought the
review of marijuana’s classiication in
2011. “But we will remain tethered to
science, as we must, and as the statute
demands. It certainly would be odd to
rely on science when it suits us and
ignore it otherwise.”
Rosenberg said designating mari-
juana as a Schedule I drug does not
necessarily mean it is as dangerous as
other drugs.
“It is best not to think of drug
scheduling as an escalating ‘danger’
scale — rather, speciic statutory
criteria (based on medical and scien-
tiic evidence) determine into which
schedule a substance is placed,”
Rosenberg wrote.
The Food and Drug Administration
said agency oficials reviewed more
than 500 studies on the use of medical
marijuana, identifying only 11 that met
the agency standards for “legitimate
testing.”
For various reasons, none of the
trials demonstrated “an accepted
medical use,” the agency concluded.
Ken Lewis/Rogue River Police Dept. via AP
This photo provided by Rogue River Police Dept.,
shows marijuana plants inside a portable toilet.
Man inds portable
toilet illed with pot
be dismissed, according to
the judge in the case.
U.S. District Judge
Michael McShane said he
will need that time to review
all of the materials, including
police reports, before making
a decision, reported The
Register Guard.
The University of Oregon
argued in court Tuesday that
the suit iled by three former
UO basketball players should
be thrown out.
Dominic Artis, Damyean
Dotson and Brandon Austin
sued the school after they
were suspended and banned
from campus for up to 10
years after being accused
of raping a female student
at an off-campus party. The
university says the players
violated the school’s code
of conduct by engaging in
sexual acts without explicit
permission from the woman.
The athletes
acknowledged having
a sexual encounter with
the woman but say it was
consensual. They also argue
that UO denied them due
process.
The Lane County District
Attorney’s Ofice reviewed
the rape case but declined
to prosecute due to a lack of
evidence.
Austin iled a $7.5 million
lawsuit against the university
in October, while Dotson and
Artis iled a joint $21 million
lawsuit in March. The suits
have been merged into a
single lawsuit.
ROGUE RIVER (AP)
— Police in the southern
Oregon community of Rogue
River say a man walking
through a park discovered
a portable toilet illed with
marijuana plants.
The agency posted a
photo on social media
Wednesday, saying it’s the
largest seizure of pot the
department has ever made.
Marijuana grows are
common in southern Oregon,
which has some of the
nation’s best conditions for
outdoor cultivation.
Chief Ken Lewis said
Thursday that police still
don’t know how the pot
got there. He says it could
be anything from a pick up
point to a disgruntled citizen
making a statement about all
the marijuana grows.
Lewis said a public
works employee checked the
toilet three hours before the
discovery was made and it
was empty. People playing
tennis on a nearby court saw
nothing suspicious.
UO seeks dismissal
of athletes’ lawsuit
EUGENE (AP) — It
will be several weeks before
the University of Oregon
knows whether a lawsuit
iled against the school by
former student athletes will
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AP Photo/Brennan Linsley
Budtender Miles Claybourne sorts strains of marijuana for sale into glass
containers at The Station, a retail and medical cannabis dispensary, in
Boulder, Colo., Thursday.
“The DEA’s decision lies in the face of choices
made freely by voters in Oregon and many
other states about the legality of marijuana.”
— Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator, D-Oregon
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
legalize pot for recreational use and
sales, that it would not interfere with
state laws so long as the drug was kept
out of the hands of children, off the
black market and away from federal
property.
Advocates saw that policy state-
ment as the irst step to an end of the
federal prohibition of marijuana.
But that hope was quickly dimin-
ished as administration oficials,
including the head of the White
House-run Ofice of National Drug
Control Policy, repeatedly said
publicly that they still considered
marijuana a dangerous drug that had
no place in the legal market.
Thursday’s announcement was
another blow to those hoping the
federal government would change pot
laws.
“In reality, marijuana should be
descheduled and states should be
allowed to set their own policies,”
said Michael Collins, deputy director
of national affairs for the Drug Policy
Alliance, which supports marijuana
policy reform. Collins said he consid-
ered the DEA’s decision to be one that
puts “politics above science.”
Thursday’s ruling has no impact
on banking rules for legal marijuana
businesses. In 2014 the Treasury
Department gave banks permission to
do business with legal marijuana oper-
ations with conditions, including that
they try to make sure that customers
complied with state regulations.
The FDA last evaluated marijuana
for medical use in 2006 and said in
its latest review that the available
research “has progressed,” but does
not meet federal standards of safety or
effectiveness.
While the DEA won’t reclassify
marijuana, the agency did announce
plans to make it easier for researchers
to study pot’s possible medical beneits
by expanding the number of entities
that can legally grow marijuana for
research purposes.
Currently only researchers at the
University of Mississippi are allowed
to grow marijuana, as part of a contract
with the National Institute on Drug
Abuse.
“While I haven’t read it, the
outcome is totally out of touch with
the Justice Department, research, the
medical profession, patients and the
public. This is very disappointing,”
said former Washington Gov. Christine
Gregoire, who requested the review.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the
DEA’s decision “is keeping federal
laws behind the times.”
“The DEA’s decision lies in the
face of choices made freely by voters
in Oregon and many other states about
the legality of marijuana,” he said.
Oregon legalized pot last year.
The
Obama
administration’s
position on marijuana started to ease
in earnest in 2013 when the Justice
Department notiied Colorado and
Washington, the irst two states to
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 107° in McAllen, Texas
Low 30° in Stanley, Idaho
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