> Worked well for Marijuana's temporary scheduling.
Are you saying that this same process has been used to permanently classify Marijuana as schedule I? That means you're implicitly claiming a few things:
* That the DEA issued a temporary classification on Marijuana that would've expired after 2 years.
* That the DEA has the power to - by itself - schedule a drug permanently. (If it went through Congress, that's a different process)
* That the DEA has the power to schedule Marijuana freely. In particular, there are no treaties forcing it to be classified a certain way.
* That the DEA used its power to freely classify Marijuana, and chose to label it as schedule I. (As a consequence, they could relabel it at any time.)
I don't know the history of marijuana or which of these is true or not. If all true, I'd like to see a different government agency do the classification(maybe the FDA? or some Congressional committee?) and the DEA do the enforcement.
660 calls to poison control over a 6+ year span does not sound like an "imminent public health risk" to me.
> It seems unlikely it'd be classified as Schedule I permanently.
Worked well for Marijuana's temporary scheduling.