Reality Check: What The Feds Get Wrong About Marijuana

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But check the state’s website, and the first line of a marijuana fact sheet: “Medical marijuana does not exist.” Umm.. huh? Reality check: There were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Photo by OlegMalyshev/Getty Images This probably comes as a surprise to the over 3 million medical marijuana patients in 33 states that have some form of legalized medical marijuana, including new medical marijuana states like Oklahoma, with 200,000 medical marijuana patients registered as of October, 2019 (in a state with a population just shy of 4 million) 15 months into their legalization program, and is now handling over 700 patient license applications each week. Some government agencies consider marijuana the worst drug on the planet and even claim there is no such thing as medical marijuana. Surgeon General Jerome Adams also said there is no such thing as medical marijuana in June, 2019, at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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Some government agencies consider marijuana the worst drug on the planet and even claim there is no such thing as medical marijuana. 

Cannabis can’t be federally legalized and used for Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medical research until it is rescheduled from its Schedule 1 designation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

There it is listed in that schedule: marijuana, the worst illegal drug on the planet, in one of five distinct DEA-invented categories, along with heroin (15,482 overdose deaths in 2017)...

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