This isn't about pharmaceuticals, this is about declaring a plant illegal and using police state methods to enforce it. Need a list of explicit Constitutional rights that are violated by the activities of the DEA?
Yep. "Medical marijuana" is a scam.
A curious logical isolation, that. Do you assert that if the only conventional and contemporary use of a plant is likely harmful to the general welfare that the federal government cannot constitionally regulate its production and use? I know that in the past cannabis was used for production of hemp, but that usage slipped into oblivion because of superior subtances for rope and the more popular use of MJ as a drug.
I think the debate is not that a plant is arbitrarily outlawed, but whether use of MJ constitutes a threat to the general welfare. There is substantial evidence that it is such a threat, so I support the regulation of MJ.
Are you arguing more for the abolition of the DEA than anything else? Well, that will require the abolition of the FDA first, and I have already posted about that.