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1988 - DEA Administrative Law Judge rules Marijuana is misclassified - DEA IGNORES!!!

POLITICS OVER LAW: It took 16 years for a properly filed Marijuana Rescheduling Petition to fight its way through the system. When the DEA's own Administrative Law Judge, Francis L. Young, after extensive hearings, issued a legal opinion that marijuana was misclassified as a Schedule I drug (with heroin), the DEA ignored it, as did virtually all elected officials. For the full text of the decision, click here: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/YOUNG/young.html

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