While i appreciate your candor about LEOs and untreated PTSD (i have a related situation having to do with a federal matter) ... your link from 1996 says "First of all, DEA has begun the administrative process to move flunitrazepam from Schedule IV to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, which imposes more severe punishment for those trafficking in this illegal drug."

Well, i checked the CFR last year (2003) and flunitrazepam was still a C-IV. I've posted many times here (and on VIP) that it's still C-IV and you're the only one to contradict me in years. The Hillary Farias Act gave that 3-yr prison term for simple possession of any flunitrazepam amount but it did not instruct the DEA to reschedule flunitrazepam (as it did for GHB and ketamine). AFAIK, there has been no Final Rule (or even a time-limited Emergency Order) from DEA about rescheduling it to C-I published in the FR. All you posted was proof that the DEA *wanted* to make it a C-I in 1996, not that they ever did anything about it.

Reason for the continued C-IV status? ... the Roche lobbyists have been very good at preventing legislatures and agencies (federal and most states') from making it a C-I because that would reduce the sales of the biggest-selling patented prescription sleeping pill in the world. I go by the USC and 21 CFR 1308 in looking at the federal schedules. If you say they have really moved it to C-I, please provide some real proof in the federal law or regulations. Your link to that testimony said they *wanted* to move it, not that they were successful. I believe that all they did was enact those harsh punishments that treats it worse than most any C-I. And we have had the Customs ban on importation and the FDA's ban on medical use for many years. I realize that it's easy get confused and think all those things seem to mean it's C-I, but i've posted many times that it's C-IV and Billy has never corrected me. He knows the schedules.

The DEA says that they *began* that scheduling process in 1996, but they have not changed *anything* as of eight years later:
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/agency/penalties.htm

Trampy