What Is A Schedule 1 Drug
SCHEDULE 1 (CLASS I) DRUGS are illegal because they have high abuse potential, no medical use, and severe safety concerns; for example, narcotics such as Heroin, LSD, and cocaine. Marijuana is also included as a Class 1 drug despite it being legal in some states and it being used as a medicinal drug in some states. DEA Schedule 1 drugs and why classifications matter. And others have petitioned the government to reclassify marijuana 'as a Schedule II drug so that physicians could legally prescribe it.'
We often hear that Marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug in the US without stopping to ask what that actually means.
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Schedule 1 refers to the highest category of illegal or illicit drugs and, for all intents and purposes, are considered to be the most dangerous. The drugs in this category are what are known as 'controlled substances'.
The United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) classifies Schedule 1 drugs as having the following characteristics:
Schedule 1 Drugs
The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical treatment use in the U.S.
There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or substance under medical supervision.
No prescriptions may be written for Schedule I substances, and they are not readily available for clinical use.
Drugs / Substances listed in DEA Schedule 1 include:
- Heroin (diacetylmorphine)
- LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide)
- Marijuana (cannabis, THC)
- Mescaline (Peyote)
- MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or “ecstasy”)
- GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid)
- Ecstasy (MDMA or 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine)
- Psilocybin
- Methaqualone (Quaalude)
- Khat (Cathinone)
- Bath Salts (3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone or MDPV)
First of all, I had no idea that people consumed bath salts. I mean, I thought that was something that people sold masquerading as meth. Second, there are a few drugs you might assume to be Schedule 1, like Meth, that are not listed as Schedule 1.
Schedule 2 Drugs
The drug has a high potential for abuse. The drug has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions. Abuse of the drug may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
Drugs / Substances listed in DEA Schedule 2 include:
- Opium
- Cocaine
- Methamphetamine
- Codeine
- Fentanyl
- Methadone
[There are many more substances on the list but my intention is just to show the most recognizable ones.]
DEA
The DEA has a very difficult time explaining how Marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug; high potential for abuse, no acceptable medical treatment use and is unsafe.
Honestly, how is Fentanyl (50 times more powerful than Heroine) and cause of the current 'heroine crisis' and spiking drug related deaths throughout North America a Schedule 2?
What does more harm? Fentanyl/Heroine Or Marijuana?
Here's a hint, just 3 grains of Fentanyl can be fatal while it's practically impossible to die of a weed overdose.
Fentanyl Makers have made large campaign contributions to prevent recreational marijuana laws from coming into fruition in places like Arizona.
It would seem that the DEA is more concerned with maintaining their own funding, continuing the decades long 'war on drugs' policy failure, incarcerating millions and profiting from asset forfeiture than to confront some of the most basic questions about the US government's own drug policies and incomprehensible drug classifications.