Editing Controlled Substances Act (section)

==Criticism==
{{further|Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act}}
The CSA does not include a definition of "drug abuse".<ref name="regulations.gov">[http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=DEA-2009-0013 Government Regulations] Docket ID: DEA-2009-0013 in [http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=DEA-2009-0013-0003 Basis for the Recommendation to Control 5-Methoxy-Dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act] The term "abuse" is not defined in the CSA.</ref><ref name="Drug Abuse 1973 p.13">"[D]rug abuse may refer to any type of drug or chemical without regard to its pharmacologic actions. It is an eclectic concept having only one uniform connotation: societal disapproval. ... The Commission believes that the term drug abuse must be deleted from official pronouncements and public policy dialogue. The term has no functional utility and has become no more than an arbitrary codeword for that drug use which is presently considered wrong." – Second Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse; Drug Use In America: Problem In Perspective (March 1973), p.13</ref> In addition, research shows certain substances on Schedule I, for drugs which have no accepted medical uses and high potential for abuse, actually have accepted medical uses, have low potential for abuse, or both.<ref>{{cite web |title=Drug Scheduling |publisher=Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Department of Justice |url=https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml |access-date=August 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809044016/https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml |archive-date=August 9, 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nutt |first1=David J. |last2=King |first2=Leslie A. |last3=Phillips |first3=Lawrence D. |author4=Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs |date=November 6, 2010 |title=Drug harms in the UK: A multicriteria decision analysis |journal=The Lancet |volume=376 |issue=9752 |pages=1558–1565 |pmid=21036393 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61462-6 |citeseerx=10.1.1.690.1283 |s2cid=5667719}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=DrugFacts: Is Marijuana Medicine? |date=July 2015 |website=National Institute on Drug Abuse |publisher=National Institutes of Health; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |url=http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana-medicine}}</ref> One of those substances is cannabis, which is either decriminalized or legalized in [[Legality of cannabis by U.S. jurisdiction|33 states]] of the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.governing.com/gov-data/state-marijuana-laws-map-medical-recreational.html|title=State Marijuana Laws in 2018 Map|website=www.governing.com|date=November 7, 2012}}</ref>