“… if the federal government actually obeyed its own laws. … The relevant law is the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which establishes five lists or ’schedules’ of progressively decreasing strictness for drugs and other controlled substances. The strictest is Schedule I, on which marijuana was put as a placeholder with the promise that the ‘medical community’ would decide if it should stay there. Possession and use of these drugs is strictly forbidden. … According to all the relevant available scientific information, as affirmed by the chief administrative law judge of the Drug Enforcement Administration way back in 1988 (and as most recently confirmed by the California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at UC San Diego), marijuana or cannabis meets none of these criteria.” (03/05/10)