Actions against medicinal cannabis

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Has the government done everything it can to allow cannabis as medicine? Consider, during the debates over where to place cannabis in the "Controlled Substance Act", a compromised was reached it would be placed on schedule I until federal agencies conducted a thorough scientific investigation then be rescheduled(1 ). Then the during Ford administration in 1976, the NIDA and the DEA banned federal funding into medicinal cannabis research(2 ).

The Reagan administration put out soft feelers in Sept of 1983, on the possibility of destroying all research between 1966 and 1976 (3 ). These are the main years that showed cannabises medical utility.

When the states tried to break out of the federal control system to meet the needs of its citizens, the federal agencies responded by aggressively promoting synthetic THC as a substitute for marijuana(4 ).