To: President Donald Trump
Stop Raiding Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
President Obama,
Please put an immediate halt to DEA raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in states where they are legal. These raids are inhumane to patients who suffer from debilitating illnesses and chronic pain and are a waste of federal law enforcement resources.
Sign an executive order changing the classification of medical marijuana from Schedule One to Schedule Two so it can be legally prescribed by doctors and made reliably available to patients.
No congressional action is needed to do this, only the political will.
Thank you.
Please put an immediate halt to DEA raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in states where they are legal. These raids are inhumane to patients who suffer from debilitating illnesses and chronic pain and are a waste of federal law enforcement resources.
Sign an executive order changing the classification of medical marijuana from Schedule One to Schedule Two so it can be legally prescribed by doctors and made reliably available to patients.
No congressional action is needed to do this, only the political will.
Thank you.
Why is this important?
Medical marijuana is legal in several states, including California, while remaining illegal under federal law. As a result, the dispensary where I get my prescribed medication for Trigeminal Neuralgia – a virtually untreatable form of neurolytic pain – was raided by DEA agents on April 16, 2013, one day after the Boston bombings in a shameful waste of federal law enforcement resources needed elsewhere.
During the election campaign, President Obama roundly hinted that raiding medical marijuana dispensaries would not be a priority of his administration. Evidently, that wasn't true.
All that would be needed to resolve the conflict between federal and state regulations would a reclassification of Marijuana from Schedule One narcotics, such as heroin, to Schedule Two, which recognizes its medical usefulness and allows it to be available by prescription. All that's lacking to make this commonsense reform is the political will.
During the election campaign, President Obama roundly hinted that raiding medical marijuana dispensaries would not be a priority of his administration. Evidently, that wasn't true.
All that would be needed to resolve the conflict between federal and state regulations would a reclassification of Marijuana from Schedule One narcotics, such as heroin, to Schedule Two, which recognizes its medical usefulness and allows it to be available by prescription. All that's lacking to make this commonsense reform is the political will.