On November 4, Drug Enforcement Administration chief Chuck Rosenberg publicly rejected medical marijuana, referring to it as a “joke.”

“What really bothers me is the notion that marijuana is also medicinal, because it’s not,” Rosenberg said during a briefing with journalists. “We can have an intellectually honest debate about whether we should legalize something that is bad and dangerous, but don’t call it medicine—that is a joke.”

Rosenberg went on to state that marijuana isn’t actually medicinally sound.

“There are pieces of marijuana, extracts or constituents or component parts, that have great promise medicinally,” Rosenberg continued. “But if you talk about smoking the leaf of marijuana—which is what people are talking about when they talk about medicinal marijuana—it has never been shown to be safe or effective as a medicine.”

That same week, the DEA released a statement defending Rosenberg’s comments:

“To clarify, Acting Administrator Rosenberg indicated that marijuana should be subject to the same levels of approval and scrutiny as any other substance intended for use as a medicine. DEA supports efforts to research potential medical uses of marijuana. To this end, DEA has never denied a registration request from anyone conducting marijuana research using FDA approved protocols. Acting Administrator Rosenberg was also clear to point out there are a number of marijuana components and/or extracts which appear to show promise as medicines, but have not yet been approved as safe and effective. His comments reflected the fact that FDA has not approved any medicinal uses for smoked marijuana.”

Unsurprisingly, anger and calls for President Barack Obama to remove the DEA chief were drawn almost immediately, including this Change.org petition that managed to gather 100,000 signatures.

“Medical marijuana is not a ‘joke’ to the millions of seriously ill patients in a growing number of states who use it legally in accordance with doctors’ recommendations,” the petition from pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority states. “It is not a ‘joke’ to the growing number of prominent medical organizations—American Nurses Association, American College of Physicians, American Academy of Family Physicians, for example—who know that cannabis has real and proven medical benefits. And it’s not a ‘joke’ to the clear majority of U.S voters who support passing laws to protect medical marijuana patients from harassment by police and the DEA.”

“[The] DEA is getting a special delivery from us tomorrow,” says Reddit user LegalizeMyself, who on Thurs. posted the above image on of a boxed up physical copy of the petition ready for its new home at DEA headquarters in Springfield, Va.

Many Redditors were pessimistic about the petition:

…Okay, so a majority of the commenters were pessimistic about the petition.

And yet?

However useless or useful the petition will prove to be, the fight to legalize medical marijuana did receive a few boosts this month, including New York Governor Andrew Cuomo passing two bills fast-tracking access for qualified patients to medical marijuana before a statewide program debuts in January 2016.

Meanwhile, democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for the reclassification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 (the same class as, say, heroin) drug to Schedule 2. She also stressed the need for more research into its medicinal benefits.

Medical marijuana is currently legal in Washington, D.C. and 23 states.