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Contact the Registration Call Center or fill out an online duplicate certificate request. The duplicate certificate should be received within eight working days. The two big issues, then, are a drug's potential for abuse and its medical value. But for federal agencies responsible for classifying drugs, abuse is when individuals take a substance recreationally and develop personal health hazards or pose other risks to society as a whole.
To find medical value, a drug must have large-scale clinical trials to back it up — similar to what the Food and Drug Administration FDA would expect from any other drug entering the market. Schedule 1 drugs have no medical value and high potential for abuse, while schedule 2 through 5 substances all have some medical value but differ in ranking depending on their potential for abuse from high to low.
In general, schedule 1 and 2 drugs have the most regulatory restrictions on research, supply, and access, and schedule 5 drugs have the least. To many people, one of the more bewildering aspects of the scheduling system is that marijuana is schedule 1 — the same category as heroin — while cocaine and meth are schedule 2.
But that doesn't necessarily mean the federal government views marijuana and heroin as equally dangerous drugs, or that it considers marijuana to be more dangerous than meth or cocaine. Schedule 1 and 2 drugs are both described as having "a high potential for abuse" — a vague description that doesn't rank drugs in the two categories as equal or different. The big distinction between schedule 1 and 2 substances, instead, is whether the federal government thinks a drug has medical value.
The DEA says schedule 2 substances have some medical value and schedule 1 substances do not, so the latter receive more regulatory scrutiny even though they may not be more dangerous.
The war on drugs was initiated when much of the nation was in hysterics about what drugs would do to the moral fabric of the country.
It may be helpful to think of the scheduling system as made up of two distinct groups: nonmedical and medical. The nonmedical group comprises the schedule 1 drugs, which are considered to have no medical value and high potential for abuse.
The medical group comprises the schedule 2 to 5 drugs, which have some medical value and are numerically ranked based on abuse potential. There are some cultural considerations to the scheduling system, as well. The war on drugs was initiated at a time when much of the nation was in hysterics about what drugs like marijuana and LSD would do to the moral fabric of the country.
Marijuana was seen as dangerous not necessarily because of its direct health effects, but because of the perception — partially rooted in racial prejudices — that pot makes people immoral, lazy, and even violent.
This perception persists among many supporters of the war on drugs to this day, and it's still reflected in America's drug scheduling. Beyond the scheduling system, the federal government imposes criminal trafficking penalties for drugs that don't always align with their scheduling. For instance, marijuana trafficking is generally punished less severely than cocaine. And state governments can set up their own criminal penalties and schedules for drugs as well. Schedule 1 and 2 drugs face the strictest regulations.
Schedule 1 drugs are effectively illegal for anything outside of research, and schedule 2 drugs can be used for limited medical purposes with the DEA's approval — for example, through a license for prescriptions.
The DEA even sets strict limits on the production of schedule 1 and 2 drugs, although the limits vary from drug to drug. Only one place in the US — a University of Mississippi farm — is currently allowed to grow marijuana under federal regulations, and the pot is limited to research purposes.
By comparison, several private companies produce oxycodone, a schedule 2 substance, and use the drug for prescription painkillers.
A drug's schedule can interfere with state laws. Marijuana's schedule 1 status is one reason banks are reluctant to open accounts for pot shops and growers in Colorado and Washington, even though the businesses are legal under state law.
Federal tax law also prohibits businesses from deducting many expenses related to the trafficking of schedule 1 and 2 drugs, which can cause state-legal marijuana businesses' effective income tax rates to soar as high as 90 percent. The DEA sometimes uses marijuana's classification to pressure physicians, hospitals, and pharmacies into not working with medical marijuana operations that are compliant with state law.
If these medical providers don't comply, the DEA threatens to take back licensing that lets doctors prescribe drugs, such as prescription painkillers with oxycodone, that contain scheduled substances. Congress could pass a law that changes or restricts a drug's schedule.
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