Onerous DEA Regs Getting Irksome: Washington State Sidesteps Them On Marijuana Testing In the wake of the DEA’s latest inexplicable decision to keep marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug (read: huge favor for Big Pharma) the agency’s collective jamming of its head in the sand caused many observers threw up their hands in a collective WTF moment. The Schedule 1 designation puts marijuana on the same plane of potential danger as heroin, and indicates that it has no known medical use, a notion which the DEA’s own actions contradict: if there is no known medical use for it, why has the DEA opened up testing protocols and regulations, allowing pharmaceutical companies to grow their own strains for testing purposes, and to develop pharmaceuticals from the plant?… Read the rest