no one voted for them

and they have a financial incentive to ignore science

placed Pot on the Schedule I list. I also thought Obama has had the authority to undo this heinous criminal act.

I stand corrected yet still wonder if Obama has had the authority to remove Pot from the CSA or not.

First and foremost, if it is reclassified, what will it do to their budget? Will reclassification negatively impact any of the corporate overlords? Is it in "corporate America's" interest to keep it Schedule I?

I don't think they'll budge on it.

Obama has failed to do the right thing.

Cannabis being classified as a schedule 1 drug is completely and totally absurd. It's literally impossible to defend this classification in any sort of rational or logical way. Of course, cannabis prohibition was never about reason, science or logic from the start. In essence it's been a culture war. The powers in charge didn't like the culture cannabis use represents and the culture of those who frequently use it.

Nixon(may he eternally burn in hell) ignored the findings of his own shafer commision when they didn't align with his irrational hatred of hippies and the counter culture movement. From that moment on cannabis has been stuck as a schedule 1 drug.

Now in the present day, it's less of a culture issue and more of a financial issue. Our government only does things to benefit themselves and their campaign donors. The LE/Drug enforcement/private prison/big pharma/big tobacco/big alcohol industries probably don't want cannabis to be legalized. It would either cost them jobs or compete with their products.

That would be perfect.

I wonder if it was planned or just serendipity.