DEA Chief: Marijuana As Medicine Is ‘A Joke’

(CBS4) – The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration dismissed the notion that smoking marijuana should be a medically approved act anywhere in comments to reporters this week.
According to a CBS News report, Chuck Rosenberg said that smoking pot “has never been safe or effective as a medicine.”
Rosenberg stated that there are qualities of cannabis that could be extracted and used medicinally, but the act of smoking pot “is bad and dangerous … don’t call