Hillary Clinton calls for easing restrictions on marijuana<br><br>ORANGEBURG, South Carolina Hillary Clinton called for lowering the federal restrictions on marijuana research at a town hall meeting ghd hair straightener Saturday on the campus of Claflin University, a historically black university.<br><br>The Democratic presidential front runner called for reclassifying the drug from doudoune moncler site officiel Schedule 1, the most restrictive class that includes heroin, to Schedule 2.<br><br>"I want to move from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2 so researchers can research what the best way to use it, dosage, how does it work with other medications," she said.<br><br>Under federal law, Schedule 1 means the woolrich outlet bologna government views the drug has having "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States," even as michael kors factory outlet 23 states have some kind of medial marijuana law on the books.<br><br>Rescheduling the drug would ease restrictions on research, which Clinton said would be critical to determining the correct policy on the drug. "We have no evidence because researchers louboutin pas cher soldes can experiment with marijuana because it a controlled substance," Clinton said in Iowa in mid September.<br><br>On legalization, Clinton has said hogan rebel outlet she wants to see how the experiment works tiffany outlet store in the states and has called hogan outlet milano for more research on mbt outlet italia medical marijuana.<br><br>"I do support golden goose milano the use of medical marijuana," she said in the first Democratic presidentialdebate last month. "And I think even therewe need to do a lot more research so that we know exactly how sac longchamp we going to help people for whom medical marijuana provides relief."<br><br>The policy is another peg in Clinton's criminal justice reform plan, a campaign aide said, which she has been rolling out over recent weeks.<br><br>RELATED:Bernie Sanders calls to end prohibition of marijuana<br><br>Tom Angell, chairman of the pro legalization group Marijuana Majority, said Clinton is moving in the right direction, but he canada goose prezzi called for her to do more. "The rescheduling ofmarijuana is a step in the right direction, but only going down to Schedule 2 is mostly a symbolic move," he said. "It may make research slightly easier, but on its own wouldn do anything to protect seriously ill people who are using marijuana in accordance with state laws from being harassed by the DEA. canada goose outlet roma Only changing the federal criminal statutes can effectively do that.<br><br>Clinton's rivals for the Democratic nomination have gone further. Bernie Sanders has called for ending the federal prohibition on marijuana, letting states legalize the drug if air max 90 outlet they chose. Martin O'Malley called for taking the drug off the schedule of controlled substances entirely.<br><br>Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed Clinton quote from the golden goose milano first Democratic debate to her town hall on Saturday. We regret the error.
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