Re:Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart At...
by dofm on Sunday July 05, 2026 @09:35AM
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The US government is now in thrall to the Kratom industry though isn't it? No reason to expect any logical consistency from them.
(Literally the person currently responsible for the branch of government that keeps illegal drugs out of the country is an investor in a Kratom company)
Re:Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart At...
by steveBK123 on Sunday July 05, 2026 @09:40AM
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Yes we are living in a kleptocracy / kakistocracy hybrid
Re:Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart At...
by slipperybeluga on Sunday July 05, 2026 @09:44AM
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The most ridiculous thing about cannabis remaining schedule 1 (high risk of abuse, no known medical use) so long is that there is both prescription THC and CBD. It should have been changed|to a higher (less strict) schedule decades ago with the release of marinol in 1985. Then we could have had a lot more studies being done. Needless to say, not easy to do studies on schedule 1 drugs.
Re:Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart At...
by yieldcrv on Sunday July 05, 2026 @03:17PM
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the two week hearing happening now mentioned marinol, with the DEA throwing its support behind that and rescheduling to schedule III, following the administration's policy aims (only mentioning because the head of DEA was anti-rescheduling before being appointed, spineless haha but I'm glad he's not in the way)
Substances approved by the FDA are done based on specific treatments, with multiple trials and approval per use case
Substances declared scheduled are illegal by the substance itself, instead of per use case
paradoxically because there is no FDA approved use case and almost no way to get one
meaning that places in the US that diverge in legality and are ignored by the federal government have done so without any clinical trial, which would be some level of peer reviewed objective information by use case instead of the whole substance
we can’t even get a simple list of side effects, or a disclaimer about what kind of users shouldn’t use it
only anecdotes
that annoys me and it’s not just about weed