Oct 09, 2008 19:51
US drug policy confuses me in one aspect especially. There's a whole lot of draconian shit going on, but that doesn't really confuse me as such. What I get confused by is medical cannabis laws. How 12 or 13 states allow medical cannabis, yet the federal government and the remaining 40-odd state governments don't acknowledge its merit as a medicine.
As I understand it, before any food or drug (or a lot of other things) can be sold or prescribed in the US, then it has to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, which is a federal organisation approved by the government and composed of (amongst others I'm sure) doctors and scientists.
So... What the federal government and those 40 states are saying is that they disagree with the experts they support? That despite the organisation that decides what's fit for consumption says, they're going to ignore it and just go ahead and do what they want anyway?
that's all