{"id":14018,"date":"2017-08-16T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=14018"},"modified":"2017-08-16T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:20:17","slug":"justice-department-at-odds-with-dea-on-marijuana-research-ms-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/justice-department-at-odds-with-dea-on-marijuana-research-ms-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department at odds with DEA on marijuana research, MS-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_1484w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2017\/06\/06\/National-Security\/Images\/AFP_PB51S-0757.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>#News420 Sure. Doing everything possible to protect the #Catch22 that keeps cannabis illegal at the federal level. It&#8217;s illegal because it has no medical use and is dangerous. Because it&#8217;s illegal, you cannot do any research to prove medical value or relative safety. Of course, any research done illegally doesn&#8217;t count, so preventing approved LEGAL research prevents #legalization&#8230;and it doesn&#8217;t matter how many illegal studies are done in states which have legalized.<br \/>\n#JeffSessions is a dinosaur, out of step with the Nation and even most of his own party. But he is a skilled obstructionist&#8230;he&#8217;s been a #GOP Senator thru the #Obama administration, some of the least productive, obstructionist Congresses we&#8217;ve ever had. It&#8217;s like he doesn&#8217;t know how to do anything else.<br \/>\nWhat a fucking asshat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wapo.st\/2wPJ451\">http:\/\/wapo.st\/2wPJ451<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#News420 Sure. Doing everything possible to protect the #Catch22 that keeps cannabis illegal at the federal level. It&#8217;s illegal because it has no medical use and is dangerous. Because it&#8217;s illegal, you cannot do any research to prove medical value or relative safety. Of course, any research done illegally doesn&#8217;t count, so preventing approved LEGAL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-14018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14724,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/medical-marijuana-is-not-just-for-pain-here-are-the-other-conditions-it-could-treat\/","url_meta":{"origin":14018,"position":0},"title":"Medical marijuana is not just for pain\u2014here are the other conditions it could treat","date":"November 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"#News420 It would be nice if we could actually find out, but unfortunately the government restricts the research to...well, basically, none. 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