How does the US Controlled Substances Act classify psychedelic drugs?

How does the US Controlled Substances Act classify psychedelic drugs?

Julie Holland (Psychiatrist; MDMA expert) gives expert video advice on: Are psychedelic drugs illegal everywhere in the world?; How does the US Controlled Substances Act classify psychedelic drugs?; Are drugs classified by the amount of bodily harm they do? and more...

The way that our government classifies drugs is Schedule I, II, III, IV, and V. Schedule I means that there is no accepted medical use and there is a high potential for abuse. Our government puts most drugs in Schedule I, not nicotine and alcohol for reasons that are unclear to me, but they do put cannibis which is a psychedlic -- that is in schedule I. LSD is in schedule I. MDMA or ecstacy is in schedule I. That is the government saying there is no accepted medical use and there is a high potential for abuse. However, MDMA does have accepted medical uses; the FDA has approved two studies administering MDMA to patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, with end of life cancer, and anxiety. Then you have medical marijuana, where clearly there are some medical uses. So there is a little bit of hypocrisy in terms of Schedule I and how things are classified currently by our government.