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Re:Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving th... by nathanasmith on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:29PM (#11917572)
The absurd thing is that while marijuana being a schedule I drug which in the DEA's own words:

>> Schedule I drugs are the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence.[0]

Cocaine and methamphetamine are both schedule II.

Now I understand the difference is that Schedule II means there are some medical uses but to lump marijuana in with "the most dangerous" but not meth? That just seems ridiculous.

[0]https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml

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Re:Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving th... by milesokeefe on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:42PM (#11917666)
Methamphetamine is routinely prescribed for ADHD under the brand name Desoxyn, it absolutely has medical use.
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Re:Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving th... by spraak on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:55PM (#11917732)
But it's manifold more dangerous than cannabis
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Re:Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving th... by yarou on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:01PM (#11917771)
Alcohol and tobacco are several orders of magnitude more dangerous than anything currently scheduled.
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Re:Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving th... by Buge on Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:14PM (#11918563)
They kill more people simply because they're more popular. I don't think they're more dangerous per dose.
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Re:Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving th... by ItendToDisagree on Friday June 17, 2016 @05:23AM (#11921533)
Think again!!! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311234/ Alcohol is incredibly bad for your body dose by dose compared to marijuana.

Sidenote (not from this study): Mushrooms are supposedly the least harmful to the human body... Who'da thought?

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Re:Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving th... by Buge on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:53PM (#11988513)
I wasn't talking about marijana or musrooms. I was talking about for example heroin, which is schedule 1.
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Re:Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving th... by milesokeefe on Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:03PM (#11918501)
Fentanyl is scheduled, so that's really not true.
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Re:Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving th... by yarou on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:59PM (#11917755)
Cocaine and its related metabolites have accepted medical use. Particularly by ENTs and such.

Schedule I drugs have no known medical use and high abuse potential, which marijuana currently falls under. Whether or not you agree with that classification is an entirely seperate issue.

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Re:Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving th... by TillE on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:58PM (#11918476)
I really can't stand when objective issues of science and medicine are framed as something to "agree" or "disagree" with.

The scheduling of cannabis is crap, and literally everybody knows it. The DEA has to embarrassingly dodge the question whenever it's brought up.

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Re:Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving th... by yarou on Thursday June 16, 2016 @06:54PM (#11919545)
What is objective here? The only objective truth is biological determinism. The rest is political garbage that I have no interest in discussing.
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