(CNSNews.com) — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom(USCIRF) is recommending that the State Department add seven additional countries to its list of 10 nations that engage in the worst violations of religious rights.
USCIRF says the seven additional countries that should be designated as CPCs [Countries of Particular Concern] are: Central African Republic, Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, and Vietnam.
(CNSNews.com) – The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has declined two petitions to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), noting that cannabis "does not have a currently accepted medical use."
"Using established scientific standards that are consistent with that same FDA drug approval process and based on the FDA's [Food and Drug Administration] scientific and medical evaluation, as well as the legal standards in the CSA, marijuana will remain a schedule I controlled substance," Chuck Rosenberg, DEA's acting administrator, said in his August 11 letter to petitioners.
