Federal Government is Impelled to Support Medical Marijuana by the American Medical Association

The American Medical Association, which is the largest doctors' organization in the USA, has reconsidered its position towards marijuana and currently supports exploration and medical research on marijuana for medicinal use. On Tuesday, the group has persuaded the federal government to re-evaluate its controlled substance categorization of marijuana in Schedule I, which unfairly maligns the plant alongside with some of the most hazardous narcotic substances, such as LSD and heroin.

AMA officer of the board, Dr. Edward Langston specifies that just the least number of controlled, casual tests have ever been maintained on ingested marijuana in spite of medical research by marijuana doctors and other experts, which encompasses more than thirty years. As for now, the group encourages new research on marijuana's effectiveness in spite of its support for the classification of marijuana as Schedule I, since 1997, because more and more marijuana doctors appear over time.

During the Obama administration, federal narcotics agents were ordered to stop prosecuting people who use and distribute marijuana (including medical marijuana doctors) in the states that have legalized it, which indicated an alteration of the course from past administrations' stringent opposition to the use of medical marijuana, even for people that have marijuana cards in the states that have legalized the plant for medical use. At the moment, fourteen states lawfully permit the use of medical marijuana and around twelve other states have started to think about doing so. The American Medical Association is interested in a study, which takes into account alternative methods of using marijuana, apart from therapeutically smoking it. Lawyers for medical marijuana speak about other helpful modes of medical marijuana use, involving THC-rich cannabis oil extraction, which is claimed to be able to heal cancer patients. Today, no one is persecuted for the use of cannabis if a legal medical marijuana card is present.

The reaction of the federal government to the AMA's stance has been pretty silent in spite of loosened federal prosecution of medical marijuana use and medical marijuana clinic workers. DEA - the Drug Enforcement Administration - repeated the status of marijuana as a Schedule I substance and the FDA - Food and Drug Administration - refused to give any commentaries on the situation. The American Medical Association was one of the sole groups to object to the first federal limitation on cannabis, which was established back in 1937. It still persists to decline the casual idea that marijuana is a myth, in spite of its past support of Schedule I narcotic classification. The organization even objected to an offered amendment, which would have settled its managerial policies in resistance to ingested marijuana as a safe way of use for marijuana treatment. In fact, almost any marijuana clinic provides edible products of medical marijuana for patients with marijuana cards.

Marijuana support groups are joyous about the new stance of the AMA and the extending change of attitude towards marijuana and everything related to it - marijuana doctors, marijuana clinics, etc. While the federal administration still resists marijuana legalization, referring to the FDA's consideration in objection to its secure use as medicine, the popular belief persists to change in favor of further study and medical use of marijuana. Last year, the second largest doctor group, the American College of Physicians has uttered similar support for improved research and reassessment of marijuana. Also, the California Medical Association passed its own opinions that referred to marijuana criminalization as a "failed public health policy."