DEA removes factually inaccurate information from web site
From MJbusiness.com
Americans for Safe Access claimed partial victory over the
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration when it announced the federal agency had
removed “factually inaccurate information” and “damaging misinformation”
regarding cannabis from its website.
The DEA removed information from its site that included “claims that cannabis was a gateway drug, caused irreversible cognitive decline in adults, and contributed to psychosis and lung cancer,” according to a news release Monday by ASA, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting medical cannabis.
The DEA removed information from its site that included “claims that cannabis was a gateway drug, caused irreversible cognitive decline in adults, and contributed to psychosis and lung cancer,” according to a news release Monday by ASA, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting medical cannabis.
The DEA made the change after ASA filed a legal challenge
over the agency’s website last year under the Information Quality Act.
Spring 2017
MJBizCon“The DEA’s removal of these popular myths about cannabis from their
website could mean the end of the Washington gridlock” regarding scientific
information about marijuana, Steph Sherer, ASA’s executive director, said in
the release.
However, Americans for Safe Access claims the DEA is
continuing to spread misinformation about marijuana, though the group did not
offer specifics.
Correcting misinformation is paramount, the ASA argued,
especially given that newly confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said
he believes cannabis is a gateway drug and can cause long-term psychological
damage to consumers.
“These beliefs are verifiably false,” ASA wrote in a letter
delivered to the DEA on Monday. “Allowing Mr. Sessions to make law enforcement
decisions based on biased, out-of-date information does a tremendous disservice
to ASA’s members and the American people at large.”
Perhaps the removal of propaganda from the DEA web site will help persuade the new administration to let States who have already passed MJ laws not enforce federal MJ prohibition.
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 2:33 PM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
This is way cool. Finally a win for the right side. Should not have taken all these years to make this happen. Why dosn't the DEA and all other federal agency have to abide by the truth in advertising laws that apply to everyone else? Oh yeah, dumb questions, the government believes in the do as I say not as I do logic our parents used. Especially this new government who spews alternative facts. What the hell are alternative facts anyway? Glad to see this happen, but suspect it will be the last good news for those of us, the majority of the populist, who thing this is long overdue. Our new president does not seem to be in agreement with the majority of his constituents on this issue.
Funny that no one has heard about this unless they come here to read this. Guess that tells you your audience is not made up of Wall Street Journal readers. Keep up the good work.
Whats with the blue font? Can't read the damm thing!
my apologies.. it does look ugly on a green background.. not so on a cell phone. Thank you for pointing it out.
Sessions will not be able to point to the DEA for a negative reference. But who knows what the President will do. After all we have accomplished, I'd hate to say we were stopped by a mad man.
Ok.. no one reads the wsj, but me. I'll watch my references.
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