Cannabis was just removed from the same category as heroin in the U.S.
The historic federal reclassification of cannabis to Schedule III marks a major turning point, promising to bypass decades of research restrictions and help scientists fully study its true medical potential.
For more than 55 years, the federal government categorized marijuana alongside highly restricted substances like heroin and LSD under Schedule I.
By shifting cannabis to Schedule III, the government has recognized its potential medical applications, breaking a decades-long bottleneck for the scientific community. While the reclassification does not legalize recreational use or allow interstate commerce under federal law, it lifts the intense bureaucratic and regulatory hurdles that have historically stifled clinical research.
Researchers will now find it significantly easier to conduct clinical trials, study diverse formulations, and obtain cannabis products that accurately reflect what is sold in state-regulated markets.
As more states establish medical marijuana programs, this reform represents a vital step toward gathering hard scientific data. Rather than declaring cannabis completely harmless, scientists emphasize that this policy shift is about finding clear answers regarding the risks, benefits, and optimal clinical uses of the plant.
source: NBC News. Cannabis reclassification could 'open the floodgates' for research, scientists say.
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has been audited station by station. The report reveals that the agency has systematically erased cooling trends from the historical record, replacing them with synthetic warming.
At Rutherglen, Victoria for example, raw data from 1913 to 2006 showed a cooling trend. But the Bureau's adjusted chart flips this into warming. No physical justification, just statistical sleight of hand.
Comparisons at Deniliquin also reveals the tactic - how past highs have been lowered to fit the narrative. Minimums from 1910 onward here are reduced by as much as 1.8C. These edits weren't based on new evidence. They were applied decades later by opaque homogenization models.
The report's author calls it the rewriting of Australia's temperature history. But it's not just happening in Australia. Climate agencies in the UK and US have also cooled the past so as to exaggerate or even fabricate modern warming trends.
This manipulated data is then paraded as truth by politicians and the media with the original measurements buried.