How to stop the annoying candidate calls

I’ve found a simple way to cut down on annoying campaign calls from candidates running for president.

Start out with a simple question. Does marijuana have accepted medical use in treatment in the United States?

If the answer is no, then the candidate has been sleeping for the past 20 years.

If the answer is yes, then the next question is equally simple. Will you sign an executive order removing marijuana from schedule 1?

If the answer is no, then the candidate is unqualified to be chief of the executive branch of government.

When Congress wrote the federal drug law in 1970, one of the conditions it placed on schedule 1 is that substances in that schedule must continue to have no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or be removed from that schedule by the executive branch. Marijuana was placed in schedule 1, even though it had been accepted for medical use in the United States up until 1942 when it was removed from the U.S. Pharmacopea.

Since 1996, 24 states have legalized the medical use of marijuana and another 16 have enacted laws recognizing medical use for extracts made from the plant. Three federal jurisdictions have also accepted the medical use of marijuana, DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico. This is legally sufficient for the president to remove marijuana from schedule 1 by executive order.

I’ve found that asking this question of the candidates is a guaranteed way to make them stop calling.

Try it yourself and see.