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To: Just mythoughts
I suppose you ignored the ‘fine print’ that describes the controls on what the Attorney General can or not do...
Here is the actual law...21 U.S.C. CHAPTER 13 - DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I - CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT
Part B - Authority To Control; Standards and Schedules

(b) Evaluation of drugs and other substances
The Attorney General shall, before initiating proceedings under subsection (a) of this section to control a drug or other substance or to remove a drug or other substance entirely from the schedules, and after gathering the necessary data, request from the Secretary a scientific and medical evaluation, and his recommendations, as to whether such drug or other substance should be so controlled or removed as a controlled substance. In making such evaluation and recommendations, the Secretary shall consider the factors listed in paragraphs (2), (3), (6), (7), and (8) of subsection (c) of this section and any scientific or medical considerations involved in paragraphs (1), (4), and (5) of such subsection. The recommendations of the Secretary shall include recommendations with respect to the appropriate schedule, if any, under which such drug or other substance should be listed. The evaluation and the recommendations of the Secretary shall be made in writing and submitted to the Attorney General within a reasonable time. The recommendations of the Secretary to the Attorney General shall be binding on the Attorney General as to such scientific and medical matters, and if the Secretary recommends that a drug or other substance not be controlled, the Attorney General shall not control the drug or other substance. If the Attorney General determines that these facts and all other relevant data constitute substantial evidence of potential for abuse such as to warrant control or substantial evidence that the drug or other substance should be removed entirely from the schedules, he shall initiate proceedings for control or removal, as the case may be, under subsection (a) of this section.
(c) Factors determinative of control or removal from schedules In making any finding under subsection (a) of this section or under subsection (b) of section 812 of this title, the Attorney General shall consider the following factors with respect to each drug or other substance proposed to be controlled or removed from the schedules:
(1) Its actual or relative potential for abuse.
(2) Scientific evidence of its pharmacological effect, if known.
(3) The state of current scientific knowledge regarding the drug or other substance.
(4) Its history and current pattern of abuse.
(5) The scope, duration, and significance of abuse.
(6) What, if any, risk there is to the public health.
(7) Its psychic or physiological dependence liability.
(8) Whether the substance is an immediate precursor of a substance already controlled under this subchapter.

The BS is on you
Show me where my BS is.

You think there are no international agreements in the weeds?
What? Drinking too much to properly format a question?
Are you talking about the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961) and the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances (1971)?
Do you agree with UN meddling in American law?

Congress is the branch that is responsible for what becomes law.
No shit, Sherlock! Where have I said somebody else was responsible?
Get a clue, Commander Clueless, and don't castigate those with more knowledge than you on an issue! Congress passed the buck on schedule change as is clearly evident in the law posted above.
Some more clues for you...controlled substance act schedule change

136 posted on 07/23/2017 12:10:43 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: philman_36
Not one thing you posted demonstrates that Attorney General Sessions is going outside of existing ‘law’. I just love the ‘bully’ mentality of the doper class..

Over my life time, those so called casual - social pot heads I have encountered, are extremely self serving and really do not give a damn about anyone else but getting to their dark moist nether world. Soros sure knew what he was playing with, when he set in motion and helped fund these states that decided ‘pot’ was their new gateway source for tax dollars. No wonder public education has been reduced to ‘common core’. Stoned kids are easy to manipulate and brain wash. They sure do know though, that they are entitled from God and our Constitution to be mental wastelands.

378 posted on 07/23/2017 7:07:35 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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