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.