"... petitions to loosen the classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical use"

A dangerous drug?? That's a lie. Marijuana is not classified as a dangerous drug. It's a Schedule I drug which means Congress has found:

A.The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
B.The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
C.There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.

"The federal government is expected to make an announcement Thursday that it has rejected petitions to loosen the classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug ..."

Nowhere in the announcement document (below) does the federal government say marijuana is a "dangerous" drug. CBS lied. CBS made it up out of thin air.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2016-17954.pdf

no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.

So that would mean that it does have accepted medical use in other countries.

"no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States."
"So that would mean that it does have accepted medical use in other countries."

Non sequitur. Using that logic, if my dog is not brown it must be blue.

Nowhere in the announcement document (below) does the federal government say marijuana is a "dangerous" drug. CBS lied. CBS made it up out of thin air.

Perhaps not but they do quote the dea which quotes the House of Delegates ("The DEA further notes that the 2013 AMA House of Delegates report states that, "cannabis is a dangerous drug and as such is a public health concern." (AMA, 2013) and they repeatedly claim marijuana has a high potential for abuse and lacks accepted safety for use under medical supervision (or variations thereof).

I have no love for cbs but I'd say it was thick air.

The DEA did not say it was dangerous. The DOJ did not say it was dangerous. No one in the federal government said it was dangerous.

AND, most importantly, Congress did not classify it as dangerous. So the claim that the federal government "rejected petitions to loosen the classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug" is a lie.

So the claim that the federal government "rejected petitions to loosen the classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug" is a lie.

Lying in the headline increases the lie's visibility.

"Lying in the headline increases the lie's visibility."

I expect Deckard to post a headline like this, not CBS News.

The DEA did not say it was dangerous.

"Schedule I drugs are considered the most dangerous class of drugs" - https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml

In their announcement, the DEA did not say it was dangerous.

Straw man. Since the DEA has gone on the record saying that Schedule I drugs, which include marijuana, are dangerous, and since they were expected to reject petitions to loosen the Schedule I classification of marijuana, it was accurate to say, "The federal government is expected to make an announcement Thursday that it has rejected petitions to loosen the classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug".

"Since the DEA has gone on the record saying that Schedule I drugs, which include marijuana, are dangerous ..."

They said Schedule I was the most dangerous class of drugs. They never said marijuana was dangerous.

Moot point. They're not saying it now, are they?

They said Schedule I was the most dangerous class of drugs. They never said marijuana was dangerous.

That's stupid even for you ... if Schedule I drugs are dangerous and marijuana is a Schedule I drug then marijuana is dangerous .

Moot point. They're not saying it now, are they?

Until they explicitly say otherwise, it remains their on-the-record position.

"if Schedule I drugs are dangerous and marijuana is a Schedule I drug then marijuana is dangerous."

So everyone in a dangerous neighborhood is dangerous?

"Until they explicitly say otherwise, it remains their on-the-record position."

Or if they don't refer to it as dangerous in their latest announcement.

"if Schedule I drugs are dangerous and marijuana is a Schedule I drug then marijuana is dangerous."

So everyone in a dangerous neighborhood is dangerous?

Apples and oranges - a "class" of drugs is based on commonality of properties.

"Until they explicitly say otherwise, it remains their on-the-record position."

Or if they don't refer to it as dangerous in their latest announcement.

LOL! So if I don't refer to myself as Catholic in my latest post one may assume I no longer am?

"So if I don't refer to myself as Catholic in my latest post one may assume I no longer am?"

If being Catholic was relevant to an issue and you failed to mention that you were, yeah, I would probably assume you converted to Islam.

If being Catholic was relevant to an issue and you failed to mention that you were, yeah, I would probably assume you converted to Islam.

And you'd say that any third party who stated I was (still) Catholic was lying, as you said of CBS? That would be stupid.

CBS made it up out of thin air.

Given the statement I've quoted from the DEA web site, the above is unequivocally false.

"And you'd say that any third party who stated I was (still) Catholic was lying, as you said of CBS?"

If that third party was referencing a document regarding the religion you practiced, and you never mentioned Catholicism, yeah, I'd call them a liar for saying that you claimed to be a Catholic in that document.

The DEA released a document saying marijuana would remain a Schedule I drug. That's all they said. Period. End of story.

The author lied when he said the DEA decided that marijuana would remain classified as a dangerous drug. He lied because he wanted to sway public opinion on the classification. He has an agenda. He's deceitful and dishonest.

"Given the statement I've quoted from the DEA web site, the above is unequivocally false."

Given the press release from the DEA, CBS lied. The DEA never said marijuana would remain classified as a dangerous drug. CBS made it up.

saying that you claimed to be a Catholic in that document.

CBS didn't say that the DEA identified marijuana as a dangerous drug in that document - that's just another of your many straw men.

The DEA never said marijuana would remain classified as a dangerous drug.

Of course they did; they said marijuana would remain classified as a Schedule I drug, and they said that Schedule I drugs are the most dangerous class of drugs.

"CBS didn't say that the DEA identified marijuana as a dangerous drug in that document"

They said the federal government had classified marijuana as a dangerous drug.

CBS could have said, "The federal government is expected to make an announcement Thursday that it has rejected petitions to loosen the classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical use, CBS News reported."

Nowhere does the Controlled Substances Act say that Schedule I drugs are dangerous. And no one in the federal government said marijuana was dangerous.

no one in the federal government said marijuana was dangerous.

Back to that lie? "Schedule I drugs are considered the most dangerous class of drugs" - https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.s html