The American Medical Association recently called for a review of marijuana’s status as a Schedule I drug. That level is essentially “it’s bad for you because we say so and you can’t have any of it, so there” category in the DEA’s schedules. However, when the AMA agrees as a whole that something might actually [...]

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Title 21 United States Code (USC) Controlled Substances Act SUBCHAPTER I — CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT Part A — Introductory Provisions Section 801. Congressional Findings and Declarations: Controlled Substances The Congress makes the following findings and declarations: (1) Many of the drugs included within this subchapter have a useful and legitimate medical purpose and are necessary [...]

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It took a constitutional amendment to enable the U.S. Congress to prohibit alcohol in 1919 (and another amendment to end alcohol Prohibition in 1933), so who gave Congress the right to criminalize other recreational drugs nationwide by the Controlled Substances Act of 1970? Nobody — and the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to rule on the issue.

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