DEA chief: Medicinal marijuana is a 'joke'

Rosenberg said that people should not conflate recreational marijuana legalization with medical marijuana.

“There are pieces of marijuana—extracts or constituents or component parts—that have great promise,” he said. “But if you talk about smoking the leaf of marijuana, which is what people are talking about when they talk about medicinal marijuana, it has never been shown to be safe or effective as a medicine.”

The DEA did not respond to requests for comment…