Pubdate: Sun, 27 Dec 2015
Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)
Copyright: 2015 Star Advertiser
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5154
Author: Andrea Tischler

PLEASE TAKE CANNABIS OFF SCHEDULE I LIST

Twenty-three states plus the District of Columbia have legalized 
medical cannabis, and more are coming on board each year.

The belief that cannabis has no medicinal efficacy has been disproven 
in privately funded studies.

More clinical trials are critically needed. Yet, those studies cannot 
be performed as long as the Drug Enforcement Administration 
classifies cannabis as a Schedule I drug, which places it as having 
no medical use. This needs to change, and soon.

Congress is not moving fast enough, but there is another route: 
rescheduling cannabis as a Schedule II drug by executive order.

Advocates of medical cannabis are hoping President Barack Obama in 
his last year as president will do just that.

Thousands of patients across the country and in Hawaii with illnesses 
such as cancer and HIV and soldiers returning from the Middle East 
with PTSD benefit from this non-habit-forming plant medicine.

Andrea Tischler Chairwoman, Big Island Americans for Safe Access

Hilo
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