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marijuana.
DEA: "Drugs in this schedule are those that have no accepted medical use in
      the United States and have a high abuse potential."

And just why did the citizens of California have to pass a ballot to
approve medical use of marijuana?

*   "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1
*   
*   From 1979 to 1989 (when the law lapsed), California had a law that was
*   supposed to help people get cannabis for medical reasons. Patric Mayers,
*   with his testimony and personal lobbying, was instrumental in getting the
*   California Legislature to pass the state law allowing cannabis for medical
*   use. Mayer's life was saved in 1976 when his doctors illegally advised him
*   to use marijuana for his chemotherapy nausea. He weighed only 93 pounds.
*   
*   However, first as state Attorney General then governor, George Deukmejian
*   deliberately refused to carry out the program passed by California
*   legislators.

So, elected officials first thwarted the law, and then thwarted the citizens'
direct vote on the matter. What a bunch of...

*   "Medical Use of Marijuana To Stay Illegal in Arizona", by Tim Golden
*   The New York Times, 4/17/97
*   
*   Acting together, the Arizona Senate, Legislature and Governor have
*   neutralized a citizens' initiative that would have allowed doctors
*   to prescribe marijuana to sick or dying patients. It came four days
*   after a Federal judge in San Francisco blocked the Clinton administrations
*   plan to sanction doctors who recommeded marijuana under the terms of a
*   similar initiative in California.
*   
*   Arizona politicians are allowed to modify the decisions of voters if the
*   law is not approved by the majority of all registered voters, not just
*   the people who actually voted. [What???] No proposition has ever met that
*   criterion.
*   
*   Arizona voters approved proposition 20