DEA VS Marijuana

"Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care ... The evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people, and doing so with safety under medical supervision. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record."
— DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young, September 6, 1988

20 years ago this statement was made, and still no change in the level from schedule 1 to a lesser schedule has been made. It is ridiculously clear that marijuana helps patients suffering from cancer, AIDs, and many other deadly diseases. It is absolutely true that marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol and tobacco. It is widely accepted that millions upon millions of people from professionals to students, doctors to politicians all smoke marijuana whether for the medical benefits, the relaxing affect, the spiritual uses, or simply the recreational use. The people have made their demands of the legalization of weed by ignoring the laws prohibiting it. These laws are unconstitutional in their ability to take away our freedom to do whatever we please that doesn't hurt another person in our own home. Get with it Washington, state by state we are decriminalizing and allowing the use of medical marijuana. Yet the DEA and federal agencies are still busting patients whose doctors have prescribed marijuana, they are still closing down legal distributors of medical marijuana, they are still acting on their own accord to take the law in to their own hands when the people have decided they want that law changed!! What ever happened to a government for the people by the people?!