D.E.A. FDA contradictions

My apologies for the lack of proofreading in the previous post, it is simply not professional on my part.
I have made some edits but also wanted to share an e-mail I recently received from the FDA. I basically inquired why cocaine and methamphetamine were Schedule 2 drugs and marijuana Schedule 1? Schedule 2 of course allows for the drug to be prescribed by a doctor for a “legitimate reason.” I don’t want to get too into the fact that 14 states have found marijuana to be a drug worth prescribing because we get into the 10th amendment and state laws contradicting federal law. I think it is safe to say that anyone who thinks that cocaine and meth deserve to be Schedule 2 they also would expect marijuana to be at least Schedule 2 (please tell me NO one thinks marijuana is MORE dangerous than cocaine or methamphetamine.)

Back to the point of the e-mail, FDA replied that Methamphetamine hydrochloride was a prescription drug used for “attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity and as a short-term (i.e., a few weeks) adjunct in a regimen of weight reduction for exogenous obesity.” Cocaine they said was NOT an FDA approved drug.

This raised lots of questions for me, perhaps the most confusing was why someone with hyperactivity would be given a drug like meth? Perhaps there is a difference between “street methamphetamine” and this “hydrochloride” version? However D.E.A. does not distinguish as they do with PCP and its precursor. Nonetheless I still don’t see any reason why meth would help one suffering from ADHD? As for cocaine, the FDA’s email raises major questions because according to the D.E.A.’s web site cocaine is prescribed as an anesthesia in surgery.

So if FDA says that cocaine is not an approved drug and D.E.A. says it is sometimes used in surgery and the D.E.A. schedules drugs with “expertise” they receive from FDA then someone is lying or there has been a major breakdown in communication. Someone make sense of this because these two agency’s are blatantly contradicting each other.