The California Medical Association , the state’s largest doctor group, has shocked the nation by officially calling for legalization of marijuana. The CMA, which represents 35,000 physicians statewide, has adopted their pro-legalization position as the first major medical association in America to urge marijuana legalization. The statewide doctors’ association proposes that cannabis be regulated in the same manner as alcohol and tobacco currently are. The California Medical Association’s announcement is predictably receiving opposition from law enforcement bureaucrats in the state. “I wonder what they’re smoking,” said John Lovell of the California Police Chiefs Association. “It’s just an unbelievably irresponsible position.” Law enforcement has a political and economic interest in keeping California jails at maximum capacity, say critics. The U.S. government considers cannabis as having “no medical use”, however, the California Medical Association now wants the Obama administration to reclassify marijuana to promote further research on the potential of cannabis as medicine. The feds recently rejected a request to reclassify marijuana, but the decision is currently being appealed in federal court by advocates for marijuana legalization. Today, the federal government is cracking down on California’s medical marijuana industry with threats to prosecute property owners who rent buildings to medical marijuana dispensaries. U.S. federal law continues to prohibit the sale or possession of marijuana, while California upholds its state law that classifies possession of less than one ounce of weed as an infraction, not a misdemeanor. Doctors across America have called for further marijuana research, and the American Medical Association has called for the federal government to ease restrictions on cannabis research. Of all the AMA state affiliate organizations, though, it is the California Medical Association now calling for the full legalization of marijuana. California Marijuana Legalization Read the rest here: CA Medical Assoc. Urges Pot Legalization
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