KevinMD November 3, 2024
L. Joseph Parker, MD

The United States federal government is a single entity, despite its three equal branches having more heads than a hydra and more arms than Mahakali. One part of that federal government is not supposed to create and propagate standards that another part arrests you for following, as confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Oregon. When it comes to the criminalization of medicine by the DEA and other federal law enforcement agencies, that rule has clearly been broken. The FDA has the statutory power to approve medications for use in the United States in accordance with the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938.

The FDA has approved controlled medications like opiates, stimulants, and sedatives for use. Opiates...

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