Leheste Calls for Increased Marijuana Research
础听聽op-ed by聽Joerg Leheste, Ph.D., associate professor at NYITCOM,聽calls for more research into marijuana鈥檚 medical effects on the body. The article follows the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) recent聽proposal to reclassify marijuana, which would move it away from its current Schedule I category (a class that also includes heroin and LSD) and聽into the prescription drugs group. Among other points, Leheste notes that while this is a step in the right direction, the decision聽will likely fall short of giving scientists the unrestricted access they need. Instead, he suggests that marijuana be removed from the schedule of drugs or placed in a different framework altogether, which would make it fully research-accessible.