While you read this, a veteran with PTSD is choosing between their job and the medicine that stops their nightmares. A cancer patient is choosing between opioids and the only thing that eases their nausea. This isn't a hypothetical debate. This is the real-world cost of a 50-year-old political lie, kept alive by bureaucratic games and corporate-funded fear. For decades, the U.S. government has classified marijuana as a Schedule I drug—a ludicrous designation that labels it more dangerous than fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine.