Despite progress in legalization, Black and brown people are still more likely to be arrested for cannabis possession and face mass incarceration. A true end to the war would require reparations and expungement of criminal records.
Why is marijuana still rated as a Schedule 1 drug, on the same par with heroin and quaaludes? What are the legal implications of this?since the start of the “war on drugs.”
The legal implications of cannabis remaining in Schedule 1 are that it is very difficult to do research on such a restricted substance and it makes it impossible for doctors to ‘prescribe’ it. Doctors currently are able to ‘certify’ patients according to state laws . Yet, many doctors are afraid to provide it to patients given that, while it may be legal on the state level, it is still federally illegal, and they could hypothetically get into trouble.
During the last 50 years of criminalization, there have been 20 million arrests for simple, nonviolent cannabis possession and, while Black folks and white folks use cannabis at the same rate, Black people get arrested about 3.5 times as often,The extreme racial ugliness of the war on cannabis users is one of the things that catalyzed such powerful popular support for legalization.
Who and what do you see as the primary barriers to complete legalization? Drug companies? Politicians? A hard-to-kill culture of denial regarding the drug’s overall safety? All of the above?
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