A new petition has been launched, from Americans for Safe Access and Change.org, that's calling for immediate action from the DEA in regards to changing their stance on cannabis criminalization. Over 89,726 people have signed the petition so far, urging President Obama to take “immediate action” in urging the DEA to concede that there is medical benefits that can be derived from cannabis.
Some of the supporters of the petition have shared their personal stories about how cannabis is personally helping them or their loved ones to overcome some negative/painful symptom or health issue. And there are other posts that also come from retired officers, who have seen the failures of the war on drugs first hand, and are urging for some sense to be exercised in the discussion on the matter.
When Will The Madness End?
The ASA (Americans for Safe Access) has recently filed a legal request with the DEA, asking them to update their information/stance on cannabis. They've got a problem with the accusations of cannabis being a gateway drug and with the claims that cannabis causes irreversible cognitive decline, lung cancer, and possibly psychosis.
Propaganda has been used for decades in an effort to try and persuade the public to support nonsensical prohibition campaigns, that harm peaceful people and prevent them from having safe access to medicine.
This plant can and has proven to help to improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world, in a peaceful and voluntary way, and the ignorance being displayed by the DEA is harmful and misleading.
The ASA wants the DEA to stop spreading misinformation that isn't based on scientific fact, they argue that it's illegal for the government to distribute inaccurate information to the public and they want the DEA to be held accountable.
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https://www.change.org/p/president-obama-make-the-dea-tell-the-truth-about-marijuana
http://www.weednews.co/70000-people-demand-that-the-dea-stop-lying-about-medical-marijuana/
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The war on drugs is stupid, cannabis should be completely legal. Not to mention all of the potential medicinal avenues for various canabanoids that still can not be properly researched due to legal issues. Its lunacy.
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Great article, thank you for the read, I wish I had of known about the petition sooner. Not only do I agree with the medical benefits but I agree with many many other uses.
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DEA is not ok. Destroy what destroys you. Fuck these nazis.
About time to go Green!
Good to see a decent number of people signing such a petition. At 89k out of 319m people, that is almost 0.02% of the population.
Personally, I think petitioning our would be masters is a waste of time... but if that many people sign such a petition I wouldn't doubt that 10 times that number would agree with it or at least looking at the information provided, which is a good thing.
If you are the non-petitioning type and believe that people shouldn't be jailed for owning plants, one thing you can do to help plant owners is to refuse to convict anyone of owning plants if you sit on a jury. (unlikely due to plea bargaining and harsh drug penalties... but it could happen)
We don't need the DEA to 'change their mind'- we need to dissolve that WORTHLESS agency- the war on drugs is nothing more than a war on PEOPLE - the DEA and their vilification of marijuana makes it clear that they promote big pharma profits.
Big Pharma commercials need to be banned as well… People don't realize just how bad "modern" medicine, really is. America consumes 75% of the World's pharmaceuticals… That is literally a staggering amount of drugs !! Everyone i know who takes High blood pressure meds, gets Diabetes within 10 years.. Anti-depressants cause Suicide, and yet, that is somehow acceptable.. i say - Take Big Pharma down with them.. YARRRR !!!!!