DEA Says Marijuana As Dangerous As Heroin & Ecstasy

A majority of Americans believe that marijuana should be legal, but the federal government refuses to take action. Instead, they’ve classified marijuana as one of the most dangerous drugs in the country, alongside heroin and LSD. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

Link - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/17/is-marijuana-legal-why-feds-are-taking-so-long-to-change/72537426007/

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A majority of Americans believe that marijuana should be legal, but federal government, well, they refuse to take action. Instead, they've classified marijuana as one of the most dangerous drugs in the country alongside heroin. God almighty. I mean, really? Tell that to Willie Nelson. Right. Call Willie Nelson. Did you know how dangerous it is, Willie? Pick it up.
Yeah. This is ridiculous. We're in the year 2024 now and marijuana is still scheduled as a schedule one drug, meaning the federal government says there are no medicinal values in this at all. It is dangerously addictive. It is deadly. Marijuana will kill you just as quickly as heroin, according to the government. Even though, as far as I have seen, and I've researched this a lot, I have not found a single person that has overdosed on marijuana.
Well, full disclosure, I'm in the business in Florida. We have the license, one of the licenses in Florida. We started off with this, doing this, because we found that CBD oil would stop children from having epileptic seizures. So we were approached and they said, well, look, would you invest in this? Can you get it out? Can you talk about the value of CBD? And we did. And all of a sudden it was legalized. We had medical marijuana legalized in Florida. Lot of different reasons because finally scientists were willing to come forward and say, yeah, we're not, we don't have all the studies yet. We can't and I can't tell you 100% that everything's okay, to tell you the truth. But I do know that there's enough history to know that it's not like heroin.
Right.
And so, but this, so you have a government that they won't change the rules at all. And just, this whole issue remains in limbo. Right. And people in the business have a tough time even staying in the business because the tax rates are so high that companies can't even keep up with the tax rates. 82% or some ungodly number like that.
Right. It is absolutely ridiculous what they're doing because we don't have federal action on it. And anytime you don't have federal action, what happens? Which a great example of that is with Covid. We'd had no federal Covid regulations to get everybody on the same page. So just like with legalization of marijuana, we end up with a patchwork of different states with different rules where it's legal here, it's kind of legal here. It's mostly legal.
We're gonna look the other way here. But it's not really.
Right. And nobody knows if you're crossing the border from one state to another, suddenly you could be committing a serious felony.
Oh, it's a federal. I mean, it's a federal law that says, yeah, this is a controlled substance and it's as dangerous as heroin. And if you use it, you have the risk of going to prison. So.
And the government says it's also more dangerous than cocaine and meth.
Yeah. Interesting.
And those are schedule two drugs.
Yeah. 70% of the American public supports it. You know, as I look at it, the studies that are coming out, I think are quick. There's some real signs that this could be a problem. I mean, heart attacks, heart problems. But it's, at this point, there's not any empirical data. There's not epidemiology that says one way or another. But the government, I can tell you, they're not going to change this law. That's the DEA. They're not going to change this law. Really, it helps support the DEA doesn't it? I mean, it's kind of.
Oh, yeah. It's their bread and butter. That's where they get their money. We arrest these people. The private prison industry is fighting to keep it illegal. The pharmaceutical industry is fighting to keep it illegal.
Oh yeah. They're.
So you've got these two billionaire.