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bperrydore

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The Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. The Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution's principle of Federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states or the people.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
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bperrydore 9 months ago
Marijuana's inclusion in Schedule I was at first considered temporary, pending an expected report from President Richard Nixon's National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse (a.k.a. the Shafer Commission -named for Raymond P. Shafer, a former Republican governor from Pennsylvania, who served as chairman). However, the Commission's 1972 report, "Marijuana: a Signal of Misunderstanding," acknowledged marijuana's safety relative to other drugs and recommended decriminalization.

Looking objectively at the CSA, belongs no higher than Schedule III and in a perfect world would be excluded all together on the basis that alcohol, tobacco and caffeine are all excluded. All 3 of those kill people every year yet marijuana is classified as the worst of the worst while never causing a single death in thousands of years.