States are challenging the supremacy of federal law on drug policy, so the Drug Enforcement Agency is likely to be confronted increasingly with petitions to remove marijuana from Schedule One of the Controlled Substances Act — the drugs that have “no accepted medical use.”

Whatever the failures of the war on drugs, removing pot from Schedule One would be a bad idea. It would fly in the face of available scientific evidence and, to boot, would rely on demonstrably false promises from one of America’s most self-righteous special interests.

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