system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: One of the qualifications for a drug to be listed as Schedule 1 is that is has no currently accepted medical use. So why is marijuana still Schedule 1?
gpt
The number one qualification for a drug to be listed as Schedule 1 is a congressional mandate to do so. No other criteria matter - if Congress decides Cupcakes are schedule 1, and we keep re-electing them, then Cupcakes are schedule 1.