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Both methamphetamine and cocaine are in Schedule II.

I must bring this up again: Drugs aren't scheduled based on how bad they are for you. They are scheduled on two bases: potential for abuse (the government considers any use of drugs for recreational purposes to be abuse) and accepted medical uses.

Schedule I: high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use
Schedule II: high potential for abuse, accepted medical uses (everything below this schedule has medical uses so I won't type it four times)
Schedule III: moderate potential for abuse
Schedule IV: low potential for abuse
Schedule V, which I think of as the "cough syrup schedule": almost no potential for abuse

Since a huge number of people use cannabis specifically to get high on it, it has a high potential for abuse; therefore, it should be Schedule II.

But here's the thing: the cops throw people getting high on Schedule III drugs in jail with the greatest of pleasure. Trump definitely has not ended the drug war with this decision.

As an aside, does anyone remember an article National Lampoon Magazine published in the 1980s to roast the drug war, entitled "The War on Lomotil"? The article claimed thousands of teens were dropping Lomotil - a drug the DEA lists as an example of a Schedule V drug - so they wouldn't have to go to the bathroom so often.