Although it's more complicated than that given that HHS and FDA need to make a recommendation, your point is well taken. He controls the executive branch (FDA, DEA, HHS et al.), and if he wanted to reschedule MJ, he's had over five years to do it. Full stop. He already broke his repeated 2007/8 campaign promises to back the fed off MMJ. In his first 4.5 years, he and his buddy H unleashed a pogrom against state-legal MMJ operations and associated landlords, financial institutions, and even armored cash transporters. The DC crowd live in their own pampered and sheltered world and have often shown they don't really care about the will of the people (upwards of 85% of whom support MMJ).


These people collect generous, salaries, benefits and perks from the taxpayers. They are suppposed to be public servants. They have had, since January 2009, the authority to reschedule cannabis on the DEA CSA list. They have refused to do so, and have even blocked legitimate cannabis research despite the American people polling 85% supporting medical cannabis. Since 1970, the federal gvt has deemed cannabis as a banned andf illegal substance of no medical value when, in application, cannabis is indisputably of enormous medical benefit and could save the nation many billions of dollars in medical treatment costs. Why are these people blocking the path of medical progress toward a healthier America? It's shameful.