{"id":145968,"date":"2015-04-16T21:09:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/target\/u-s-judge-wont-remove-marijuana-from-most-dangerous-drug-list\/"},"modified":"2015-04-16T21:09:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:09:05","slug":"u-s-judge-wont-remove-marijuana-from-most-dangerous-drug-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/u-s-judge-wont-remove-marijuana-from-most-dangerous-drug-list\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. judge won&#8217;t remove marijuana from most-dangerous drug list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\"><em><strong>A federal judge has upheld the constitutionality of a 1970 federal law that classifies marijuana as a dangerous drug akin to heroin.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Efforts to legalize marijuana suffered a defeat in court Wednesday when a judge upheld the constitutionality of a 1970 federal law that classifies cannabis as a dangerous drug akin to LSD and heroin. U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller, announcing her decision at a hearing in Sacramento, said she could not lightly overturn a law passed by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller agreed last year to hold an extensive fact-finding hearing on the issue , raising the hopes of activists seeking to legalize marijuana and worrying opponents who consider the drug a threat to health and public safety. The hearing marked the first time in decades that a judge was willing to examine the classification of marijuana under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act.<\/p>\n<p>The Schedule 1 classification is for drugs that have no medicinal purpose, are unsafe even under medical supervision and contain a high potential for abuse. In addition to marijuana, heroin and LSD, other Schedule 1 drugs include Ecstasy and mescaline.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller, an Obama appointee, announced her decision before issuing a written ruling, which is still pending. She considered the constitutionality of the classification in response to a pretrial motion brought by lawyers defending accused marijuana growers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point in time, a court may decide this status to be unconstitutional,\u201d Mueller was quoted as saying on leafonline.com, a pro-marijuana blog that has been covering the case. \u201cBut this is not the court and not the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-marijuana-ruling-20150415-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has upheld the constitutionality of a 1970 federal law that classifies marijuana as a dangerous drug akin to heroin. Efforts to legalize marijuana suffered a defeat in court Wednesday when a judge upheld the constitutionality of a 1970 federal law that classifies cannabis as a dangerous drug akin to LSD and heroin. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}