So, I wanted to readdress this, because my post was done at about 3 in the morning, because sleep just would not come, and all the disparate trains of thought I had appear to have piled up.
So... To reemphasize/reput a few points to stay:
A) If marijuana avoids Schedule 2 at the Federal level, then Schedule 2 is little more than a political contrivance, because even the common sense underlying something being on Schedule 2; high abuse potential, but medical use, is apparently less a matter of objectivity and more a matter of what someone's opinion is. I hate few things more than arbitrarily carving things out for reasons. All ot does is create more suffering and complexity to navigate.
B) DEA is on my Federal Agency shitlist. Not only do they unabashedly centrally plan, but they've repeatedly been caught out violating the public trust, and using engaging in less-than-legal investigation techniques that flagrantly violate U.S. citizens fundamental civil rights. Either through things like regular use of parallel construction, implementation of surveillance apparata that'd make the Stasi blush, and such nonsense that's such a close proxy to unabashed racism it isn't even funny. See the difference in severity between possession and use of cocaine vs. possession and use of crack. It's so damn transparent there I have increasingly more trouble recognizing them as being worthy of being afforded the benefit of legitimacy.
Now... In response to what you brought up, and to clean up some of the confusing mess in my deschedule Adderall thing.
>The solution to misclassifying weed as schedule-2 is not declassifying a controlled substance habitual users never take less of.
I disagree that marijuana is not something that should be on Schedule 2. It is a narcotic, it has high abuse potential, and it has medical uses. Schedule 2 period. Further: your assertion no one ever takes less Adderall is incorrect. I'm a living, walking, talking counterexample, thank you very much.
>Adderall abusers (~1000mg+ snorted over 1wk IME)
At that point you're already far out of the regime of intended use. All forms of Adderall are calibrated to be introduced to the body orally. If you're bypassing that, that's on you.
1000mg a week is over 140mg per 24 hours. As an individual who has been on this stuff for over 2 decades for ADHD, and has flirted with the very tippy tops of the dosage envelope (I was not a light individual), that regime of use by anyone uner 280->300 lbs is a heart attack waiting to happen.
>and end up terrorizing everyone around them with their high-functioning, semi-coherent psychosis.
...Could you elaborate more on your subjective metric for measuring psychosis? One of the interesting bits I learned as part of a set of coping strategies for being on these types of meds is to keep logs and measure things/look them off. There are times where yes, it can absolutely hose your ability to perceive errors in cognition. However, there are also just as many examples I have of times people were adamant I was wrong, but it turned out they couldn't understand/were incorrectly understanding the situation. Bout a 50/50 mix in my case. That's after applying a pessimum adjustment against me.
Telling the differrnce between the two of those situations is not an easy skill to come by. The subtlety of the deleterious side effects are actually one of the reasons I've sort of come around to getting away from them if possible.
>After a week of no sleep people become these weird, babbling troll creatures that mimic human behavior while reacting with violence to imaginary slights, clawing their skin off and otherwise acting like Smeagol-turned-Gollum.
...yes... Agreed. Not seen Adderall directly causing that.
>It's the sort of characterization I've only ever heard used to describe meth users.
Neurotransmitter fuckery does that.
> It's a godsend for ADHD, but it's a loaded P320 in the hands of anyone else. This stuff is no joke.
I actually agree.
The only point I think we really diverge is that I actually don't think weed is as harmless as people present, and just because it tends to "self-limit" through passouts/depressive effects, does not, in my mind, justify it not being Schedule 2.
...and finally, that at the risk of coming off as a crab in a bucket... There is no way in hell I'm okay with weed dodging Schedule 2 at best. Period. To be clear, I don't wish Schedule 2 on anyone... But goddamnit; if I have to go through the damn ringer for the sake of "protecting society", so can those that want to use weed. It's either fair across the board for everyone, or it shouldn't be a damn thing.