Five legal standards are:
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Does marijuana have a known and reproducible drug chemistry?
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Does marijuana have adequate safety studies?
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Are there adequate and controlled studies showing marijuana’s efficacy?
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Are marijuana’s therapeutic benefits accepted by qualified experts?
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Are scientific data available for scrutiny?
To sustain the view that marijuana should remain in Schedule I, the prosecution team also had to show that marijuana has:
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A high potential for abuse,
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No currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and
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Unacceptable safety standards for its use under medical supervision.