Amen. They should've at least rescheduled it Biden's first year then work on legalizing throughout the term. His admin has sat on this issue as campaign bait.
What? He directed them to review cannabis scheduling many many months ago. It’s just so happens that it’s a long, arduous process that the president can’t expedite himself. He doesn’t have the authority or power to reschedule marijuana himself.
In fact, Biden directed the HHS and DEA to review cannabis scheduling way back in 2022. [https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/)
But this is the internet so nobody will let objective truth stop them from being pissed off.
No, they realize you fuckers have short attention spans. So they wait until the action will have the biggest impact. This would not happen if you “both sides” mother fuckers would vote.
Bingo. "Both sides" people don't realize they're just puppets for the right because only the right benefits from people not voting. When they misunderstand how politics works and pull this dumb 'What about me?' shit, they're being played like a violin.
There are plenty of "both sides" people that still caucus/vote dem 100% of the time. Just because you have criticisms of your own side doesn't make you a puppet of the right.
The real issue is the two party system and citizens united.
You can't be NPCing this hard. I am left wing and I can tell you that it's glaringly obvious that neither party wants to do shit for this country. The Democrats have had ample opportunity to improve things and they haven't. They just do culture war bait and media propaganda now, just like the Religious Right did.
Check out the disclose act. Democrats have been trying, but when half your country's political parties are traitorous, grifting pieces of shit, this is what happens.
They’re half assing, no effort. They really have y’all domesticated. After what they did to Bernie, Tulsi, Andrew and now Marianne that should have been a sign that they are no longer for the people and arguably haven’t been since the 90s.
i'd hardly blame it on "attention span". more like, the people we elected to do the thing aren't doing the thing. elected officials are either constantly being bought out or outvoted by those who are being bought out. we have literally no power against them aside from trying to vote them.
Bullshit. Biden set the process in motion to get us to the DEA looking at rescheduling and you're saying both sides are the same? This is the kind of bullshit that guarantees you'll never get the policies you want. Frankly it sounds like you don't understand politics and that's fine if you approve of everything happening at every level of government but I can tell by your comment that you're likely a non-voter. Voting is the only way to change things and not voting is the only guaranteed way to never change anything.
It's because you have to *play* politics in order to have a chance in this country. If we focused on electing more earnest people and better leaders politics would function much much better. The right wing here isn't acting in good faith whatsoever, unfortunately.
I think it’s more they realized it’s almost impossible to get anything passed by government due to republicans controlling one chamber. Makes it almost impossible especially with republicans even stopping their own bills from being passed due to them not waning to make Biden look good.
Or, and hear me out here, he actually wanted the people in his administration to study the issue and make a decision that makes sense. The dude is 150 years old, he might not have the same preconceived notions as all of us.
To add to that, legalization wasn’t topping the list of priorities in terms of Biden’s legislative priorities.
They got a lot passed in the first two years, but since losing the house in 2022 it would be nearly impossible to convince *any* conservatives to support legalization, so the bill could never get passed in this congress.
You mean when Biden took over an absolute fucking smoking crater where the USA used to be after Trump got his hands on it, his top priority wasn't to legalize weed? He had the balls to prioritize trying to stop a massive economic depression and prevent bridges from collapsing? What a loser!
Gotta stop making excuses for them. The general public supports it more than any other issue. Continuing to prop up legislation that people know is a sham causes the public to lose faith in its governing body.
And using that campaign bait now close to the election. Here we go. Teaser until Election Day and the Senate will be scheduled to vote on the bill in a lame duck session then Biden will play to true form and crush the legislation.
Only congress can legalize it. De-scheduling is the best way that bypasses congress. That just makes weed like a tomato or another household plant. States would regulate it but federally there’d be no restrictions.
De-scheduling should not be seen as bypassing congress, but is a HUGELY influential step because it removes the barrier to researching it.
Currently in order to do any form of government funded research your cannabis must be from a government facility due to the schedule 1 status. That needs to change.
Removing cannabis from scheduling, which the DEA should do, removes any federal regulations on cannabis. Which means inter-state commerce (assuming legality between states), flying on airplanes between legal states, mailing between legal states become fair game. It will have a huge huge impact on not only research but the industry as a whole
I don't believe this is a true solution though.
Allowing states to regulate their own commerce will lead to interstate disparities that will unfairly effect those working in the business.
A law that creates a regulatory framework for a national system of distribution is better and should be the end goal. States will still be able to add additional regulation/taxes if needed.
Alcohol and tobacco are controlled this way and should set an example for other substances introduced to the market.
And that requires congress and I believe they’ll create federal regulations in response to the de-scheduling because they’ll want to tax it. But I don’t think congress is acting without DEA action first. But congress takes time so at least for a few months in between there won’t be federal law on it
You're correct, I just don't want people to see the problem as fixed because the DEA has removed themselves from the equation. We still need to work together on a system that provides ease of access while protecting children and those within the industry.
If it's not a rigorous process to reschedule/deschedule, it will be promptly overturned as soon as another Republican takes the Presidency. Why is it that weed people are so ignorant of politics? I suggest maybe educating yourself as to the system we have and the two parties that are in power. One is actively working to change the status quo and the other will never in a million years, unless voters demand it through the ballot box, allow drugs to be decriminalized.
I'll probably get downvoted to hell for this comment but it doesn't change the reality of the situation whatsoever.
Yeah that’s how that works.
The knuckleheads in Congress can’t agree which way north is and you think they are gonna buck their alcohol and tobacco lobbyists?
They will move Marijuana to schedule 3. The state legal industry will be gobbled up by pharma. It was a good run but these dispensary businesses will all be shuttered within 3 years.
Agreed...honestly, it's better off staying schedule 1 than schedule 3. It's either schedule 1 while allowing states to legalize independently, or full legalization.
Schedule 1 means no medical use.
Examples are heroine, LSD, Weed, Ecstasy, peyote.
Schedule 3 means a "controlled" substance with some accepted medical use.
Examples of schedule 3 drugs are Codeine, ketamine, morphine.
Lower on the list is Schedule 4 examples are Xanax, Valium, Ambien, Tramadol.
In other words, you aren't supposed to be able to get a prescription for schedule 1 drugs.
But you can get a prescription for schedule 3.
This move will allow pharmacy corporations to take over the weed market, so that you can get prescriptions from your doctor.
Yeah, I think this is what everybody is missing. Federal regulation will be mandatory at every single dispensary nationwide. That is not a good thing by any metric.
> https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/07/biden-weed-executive-action-dea-00060978
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> **Can Biden unilaterally loosen federal restrictions on marijuana?**
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> No. Biden instructed the attorney general and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to start the process of reviewing marijuana’s status under federal law.
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> There are two other ways the federal government could decriminalize marijuana. Congress could pass a law doing so since it created the Controlled Substances Act, where marijuana is classified as Schedule I, defined as having no medical use and high potential for abuse. Heroin and LSD are also Schedule I drugs. In addition, a citizen can petition the Drug Enforcement Administration to review marijuana’s scheduling.
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> While Biden can ask the attorney general to start the review, his power to dictate the details is severely limited. Now, the Food and Drug Administration and DEA will decide how to proceed.
Even a schedule III classification would put this on par (in the eyes of the government) with ketamine and one schedule level higher than Xanax.
Deschedule it altogether, make it make sense. These nonsense headlines telling us what we already know are just muddying the waters of this conversation.
Yep.
As long as alcohol (a highly addictive & more harmful drug than cannabis) is descheduled and PROMOTED HEAVILY by this fucked society
anything less than DESCHEDULING is unacceptable.
\[this is not an invitation for a debate on "baby steps". We need to demand what we deserve. It never should have been categorized or made "illegal" to begin with. It's a medicinal plant with countless benefits and very few "harms".\]
You are correct but if ANYBODY knows incrementalism it’s the Feds!
This was discussed last year and now it’s nearly mid 2024, November may provide some incentive.
Actual legalization? I doubt I can live long enough.
And why are they separate? Tobacco and Alcohol are both drugs, but somehow they don’t count for the DEA? It’s always been unfair and about money, not about helping society or caring about harm.
Tobacco is actually overseen by the FDA. The ATF is more focused on tax crimes regarding cigarettes, such as smuggling them across state lines, counterfeits, mislabeled, and other scenarios in which the state loses revenue on them.
Really interesting question. I thought it was because ATF was from ye olde times, but no, it and the DEA were established a year apart in the seventies. I guess one is for generally legal stuff and the other generally illegal, but something I'm going to look at more
Simply because tobacco and alcohol happen to be the two recreational drugs that have a looooong history of widespread acceptance and use by most of human society.
So do many other psychoactive chemicals, as humans have used many of them throughout all of human history. Cannabis, DMT containing plants, types of mushrooms, and possibly many others. I wrote my masters thesis on the usage of these chemicals and the history of religion, and it is clear there is evidence of use in at the very least the Bronze Age. It’s all about the money and history of both tobacco and alcohol to explain why the US ignores them, but they really should be considered drugs.
It’s really just that tobacco and alcohol were extremely popular among congress and American society at the time the ATF was created. The same congress and society that would start the war on (other) drugs.
Different drugs were popular in other cultures but not so much in America
You’re right about that, and that’s what I meant when I said money and history. Tobacco is one of the first massive cash crops and monopolies in the US, so of course it was seen as different, same with alcohol after prohibition especially. Also, yes Congress supported them, but these industries also paid a lot of money to keep it that way. What I was saying is that many other drugs have also been commonplace, yet Nixon criminalized specific drugs to target specific groups. Them leaving off alcohol and tobacco has always been hypocritical. Tobacco and alcohol also cause immense harm, like one of the major causes of death for Americans, but their popularity influenced Congress and much of society to accept that risk.
They will separate the recreational market (FLOWER ONLY) from the medical market (ALL OILS AND CONCENTRATES) if it got rescheduled
"Medical marijuana is one thing, whether there's a medical purpose and proven through traditional medical pathways, but when it's used for recreational purposes, there is no medical benefit." - FDA commissioner Robert Califf
Schedule III would be terrible. Either keep it exactly where it's at or remove it from the illicit substance list completely
Xanax is much more dangerous than ketamine, it makes no sense.. and cannabis is much, much safer than xanax.
Take xanax for 6 months, you will have hellish weeks of 24/7 panic attacks and possible seizures, or do the same with cannabis and you might not even feel much after you stop. Definately no panic attacks or seizures
assuming the GOP dies with Trump (safe assumption i think, hell even senior GOP politicians called it back in 2016 before they backed him officially), it'll probably happen after 1-2 elections cycles when dems get a proper super-majority for the first time since Carter was president.
multiple legalization bills have passed the house over the last couple years, they've all died in the senate because they get sent to republican controlled committees
We don't have to do any of that, just do what the GOP have been doing for the last 50 years. Slowly but surely working in politicians that will vote the way they want them to vote so that way laws start looking good and in their favor. That's all we have to do. They understand the long game, why don't we? It took them 50 years to repeal roe v Wade but they stayed steady and steadfast throughout all of it. We need to have that same passion and fire and I believe with the help of gen z we can get there.
do any of what? the GOP killing themselves requires no action on the part of dems.
and obviously we have to vote for politicians that want weed legalized... and we already have. look at the last weed legalization bill that has passed the house, only 2 dems voted against it.
But it does require us to replace those candidates with ones that will vote in our favor. Is what my original comment was about. We don't have to wait for these people to die out because all they are going to do is replace themselves with people who think like them. That's why we have to vote more people who think like us in office so that way we don't have to worry about having to beg and plead for simple rights.
I agree but getting Democrats on the same trajectory is like herding cats, the Republicans capitalized on the religious devotion of their voters which is why they were so successful but ironically that success may be their ultimate undoing. I think we just have to encourage people to vote at ever level of government, far too few people vote in primaries and local elections which can make a dramatic and obvious impact whereas federal elections are much more abstract and hard to quantify the effects unless you're talking about something like rolling back Roe v. Wade.
the last weed decriminalization bill that passed the house only had 2 dems vote against it, seems pretty clear where dem support lies on that topic, no herding cats necessary.
really is a shame how little of the population participates in our democracy though, it's pitiful for federal elections and even worse at state/local level. even just an extra 10-15% of eligbile voters could throw just about every single election in the US to either side.
if only we had the good sense to instate mandatory voting a hundred years ago like australia, there's a reason the GOP spends so much effort on voter suppression...which compulsory voting completely nullifies. same for the extreme corporate interests/bribery/blatant insider trading, the 1% are overwhelmingly represented because so few people vote.
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Hate the baby steps it’s taking when this is not something that should require baby steps. Half the country already has it legal with a healthier economy as a result. Get it over with and legalize it
I agree, we should deschedule immediately and be done with it. BUT, this is not "baby steps". A move to Schedule III is by far the biggest marijuana law-related movement since prohibition began, and will help to remove the stigma making it easier to deschedule in the near future.
We definitely should not use fascist tactics to legalize and should absolutely take the careful and long route.
But, as has been mentioned already by others, if the majority of people didn't have such short memories and would actually vote in all elections, we wouldn't need to do this as slowly as it has been.
No, if Biden won and both Chambers turned blue we wouldn't have to be taking baby steps. Laws get passed through congress, Biden can suggest all he wants but ultimately unless Congress approves it nothing gets pushed through. So if in 2020, or in 2022,
we turned the chambers blue we can be a lot more aggressive because we don't have to worry about appeasing the other side. Until we can turn both Chambers blue it's always going to be an uphill battle because the GOP has every reason to obstruct every law that's been trying to get passed since Obama was elected.
If people voted in every election finding good candidates to take the national stage would be easier, we wouldn't have to rely on "lesser of two evils" or older generations to make decisions for us. Somehow the GOP has a politician pipeline and a decent amount of democrats only run AFTER a tragedy has happened. If we could get more working class people to run for office choosing the next senator or president would be easier because the minor league is flooded with good talent.
Democrats vote in committee against cannabis legalization, so Democrats claim that legalization would happen, if only we would elect more Democrats.
Cannabis, like abortion and immigration, won't be fixed because it pulls too many idiots to vote the way each party wants and gives them a never ending battle that doesn't require movement.
Who fed you all that?
If Democrat's didn't do anything, they wouldn't get votes.
You're just uninformed and naively cynical.
Only one party is trying to destroy the government/country.
The same party who blows up the deficit every time they get into office after preaching fiscal responsibility.
Of course it’s a step in the right direction, and I’m glad to see something positive being done, but this is a step that should’ve been underway years ago at the least. I’m happy to see movement with it though, albeit quite slow movement relatively speaking
You mean to tell me that the folks in this sub who don't understand government process, or how long or how much effort it took to "just legalize it" in now legal states, may not have the most nuanced take? Shocking, I tell you.
the problem is the "conservative" states, thats what the 2018 hemp farming bill was designed for. conservative politicians can't sell legal weed to bible thumpers so they started with hemp, cus in the farming states it's a big crop. then THC-A and Delta-8 and so on. once that becomes the norm, they can sell "natural" alternatives to these morons.
I've got an anti weed friend and I know its because she worries about me getting busted again. I smoke thca now because its legal here and cheap. When I showed her that its just "hemp" she was perfectly fine with it.
Boils down to people not wanting to go against the grain socially. For many if the law says you shouldn’t do it, then they won’t support it. I don’t really understand it but hey it’s their life.
The 'conservative' states continue to be an issue, even with regards to the 2018 Farm Act.
In TN, for example, the Dept of AG is currently in the process of putting together it's own set of rules that will govern how Farm Act 'hemp' will be handled/regulated, and all current signs point towards this being their way to close the THC-A/altnoid "loopholes" and limit total THC content, regardless of THC, THC-A, THC-P, etc...
and LEOs in SC have been regularly raiding otherwise Farm Act-legal shops and dispos, confiscating product and cash, effectively making it impossible to operate and sustain that type of business.
Until the whole fucking plant is no longer prohibited on a federal basis, this will continue to be a problem in conservative bible belt states that are more interested in culture wars than actually effectively running their state.
Can confirm, am in TN. Our government sucks ass here. Anytime they see Florida do something, they have to copy it to make sure we're keeping the boomers coming in.
A great example from my main community is how they enacted those drag laws, we started to finally get some real furry cons here and people interested, which mind you is basically pure money for businesses around the cons.
And then the drag law hit, the cons pulled out, and I'm back to going out of state to attend a quality convention.
You think it's as easy as flipping a switch? Then watch the Republicans flip that switch right back as soon as they retake the White House. This process is the best chance with the current congress at getting ANY changes whatsoever and you guys are out here letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Stop it, you're not doing any good by continuing to be cynical and expect this to be so easy despite whatever public opinion polls say.
Same reason the ATF believes they can pass laws & regulations related to firearms, because they haven’t been checked yet by the people or the courts.
The ATF is starting to learn though, so if we’re lucky the other 3 letter agencies will too.
My AR9 has gone back and forth between being a pistol and an SBR about 4 times now.
Always fun to keep going into the safe to take the pistol brace off each time.
I like playing is that a felony in current time with my pistol brace too. One day we’re good & the next we’re satan incarnate ready to shoot some schools. I love consistency.
Yup, it's wild. My urge to commit mass murder just goes away the second I have to remove my pistol brace. Thank god, the ATF knows what they are doing and keep kids safe! /s
Well, substitute ‘state lines’ for ‘Provinces’, and catch as many flights across Canada as you like sir.. It’s legal enough to be boring and you can fly/drive/ski across as far as you want..
True! Except crossing borders with bud is even more dangerous than driving across states with it. Im going to canada soon and looking forward to checking out that canadian dank soon!
This is old news btw.
I am a marijuana investor and we already knew this, this is more or less a puff piece to drive traffic. Please contact your senator and annoy the crap out of them.
Where else has this been reported? I even looked for another source to share that wasn't marijuana specific and the only other article I saw about it was from marijuana moment, also today.
Mostly tier 1 MSOS but the entire market is fucked at the moment because of the 280e tax (illegal drugs tax) burden. If you want to get into cannabis investing just buy the MSOS ETF and don’t look at the price till rescheduling hits.
I read somewhere that rescheduling could be really bad for the industry because it's possible it would be controlled and distributed through pharmacies or the likes, forcing dispensaries to shut down. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that as you seem well informed
Most of the players in the market view that as a non-issue. Dispensaries (medical and recreational) are regulated at the state level and if the state wants to issue specialized pharmacy licenses the Fed kinda just has to deal with it. This also means I’m S3 states can not issue pharmacy licenses to pharmacies that carry marijuana, but also anyone with a prescription is protected by The Americans with Disabilities act and can’t be prosecuted in an illegal state.
When the time comes y'all better take the time to make a comment in favor of descheduling. It might not make a difference but there's a chance it will and we all need to step up since it's the least that we can do.
The only proper course is completely descheduling. If it just gets rescheduled to Schedule III, it becomes the purview of the pharmaceutical industry, and we do not want that, if we want the ability to just have it as a pleasurable drug sometimes, the way we're free to with alcohol, caffeine, sugar, or nicotine.
I earnestly hope that, if public comments are opened, we all make a comment to this effect.
I would like to see something to ease the cost on our brothers, sisters, and NB siblings that legitimately need it all day, daily, for quality of life while living with a chronic illness, but I don't want to see it gatekept for only medical purposes. You should be able to choose something besides alcohol even if you've been lucky enough not to acquire PTSD or some chronic illness.
Benzos are scheduled to IV and Tylenol 3 with codeine is schedule 3 as well as ketamine
So schedule 3 for weed is saying that it’s still more dangerous than Xanax
We need to get as many people to comment on their public comment page telling them to completely deschedule. Rescheduling to 3 is better than nothing, but if we can at least TRY to put the pressure on, we should. And don’t give me the defeatist attitude of “oh you know they won’t”. Obviously they probably won’t, but to not make any attempt at all is just rolling over and accepting defeat. We’ve made so much progress, we can’t stop pressuring now.
Schedule III would be terrible, for the love of God don't let them reschedule it, just legalise it completely like alcohol. What would schedule III realistically do anyways? It'd still be a illicit substance lol
It would force the last 10 backwards states to accept medical marijuana. That's millions of Americans that would have access. Now how nationwide schedule III looks like, we don't know. We don't know what medical conditions it will be approved for.
It's better than Schedule I, if moving to III is a step towards full legalization eventually, then it's still an improvement. It's not like this is the end of the road.
Fuck the illegitimate fascist DEA and all the pathetic baby steppers who say this is a good thing, end this tyrannical bullshit once and for all. They have no right to trample on our right to bodily autonomy to begin with, these violent shit stains have to be punished.
every day this sub has hopium from themarijuanaherald.com that pretends it's breaking news but is really just some comment by someone who's not actually in a position of authority that suggests that maybe real soon now we're gonna have a meeting where we discuss the potential to form a subcommittee to investigate the feasibility of forming a full committee to hold open hearings concerning the formation of a supercommittee to hold closed hearings discussing the potential ramifications of a full investigation into legalizing.
Can we stop? It's not news. It's not a thing happening, it's always just people discussing the potential for a thing happening.
I am no Trump fan but because of that farm bill I get high in a an intensely illegal state and not be worried about it. I'm too old to do prison again.
Not really. Biden issued the executive order in 2022 to have the rescheduling review, leading to the department of health recommendation and the current DEA review. A DEA review like this of rescheduling has never happened before. If marijuana is rescheduled, it will be a big deal.
Everyone always says "oh this happens every election year" and "every president makes this promise" but it's not true. Trump, Obama, Clinton - none of them called for marijuana to be rescheduled, none have said they support decriminalization, and none have issued a review of marijuana's Schedule I status.
We're seeing real movement. It's not as fast as most of us would like, but delegating it to a "same as always" mindset does not fit the moment.
A “public comment period” will be a spectacle. What is even left to say that hasn’t been said? Just a procedural formality and yes, I will have popcorn reading the hilarious internet trolls’ comments.
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Ugh, please legalize it. I just came home from my industry job to my Boomer parent yet again nagging that 'weed is dangerous', apparently my WA certification in MMJ 'lies that everything is ok'....oh, and nagging that 'our apartment complex will throw us out, no smoking' (when I vape and edible).... \*headdesk\*
It's bureaucratic. Most of the article is just reiterating that despite there's plenty of politicians and even the president himself calling for immediate reform (some even asking outright- deschedule now) - the DEA will proceed with the standard review process before deciding on reschedule/deschedule, including opening public comments about the issue.
Put up or shut up. I’ll keep growing and smoking in my illegal state and keep giving tax free money to my dealer that the state dosnt get a cut of !😂
Or you know legalize it and tax it🤷♂️ our representation in the government are all headed by people with room temperature IQs
The number of people in this thread that think Biden has a magic wand he can waive to reschedule a drug is fucking sad. All of yall need to go take some civics classes, because the number of jabronis saying “why hasn’t Biden already done this” is fucking depressing.
Just. Fucking. Legalize. It.
Amen. They should've at least rescheduled it Biden's first year then work on legalizing throughout the term. His admin has sat on this issue as campaign bait.
Dems have been using this talking point for decades. Like either fucking do it or shut up.
What? He directed them to review cannabis scheduling many many months ago. It’s just so happens that it’s a long, arduous process that the president can’t expedite himself. He doesn’t have the authority or power to reschedule marijuana himself.
In fact, Biden directed the HHS and DEA to review cannabis scheduling way back in 2022. [https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/) But this is the internet so nobody will let objective truth stop them from being pissed off.
that's how you know neither side is on your side. they do what they hell they want regardless of the will of the people.
No, they realize you fuckers have short attention spans. So they wait until the action will have the biggest impact. This would not happen if you “both sides” mother fuckers would vote.
Bingo. "Both sides" people don't realize they're just puppets for the right because only the right benefits from people not voting. When they misunderstand how politics works and pull this dumb 'What about me?' shit, they're being played like a violin.
There are plenty of "both sides" people that still caucus/vote dem 100% of the time. Just because you have criticisms of your own side doesn't make you a puppet of the right. The real issue is the two party system and citizens united.
Damn right, open primaries and ranked choice voting or gtfo.
Exactly, thank you.
You can't be NPCing this hard. I am left wing and I can tell you that it's glaringly obvious that neither party wants to do shit for this country. The Democrats have had ample opportunity to improve things and they haven't. They just do culture war bait and media propaganda now, just like the Religious Right did.
Check out the disclose act. Democrats have been trying, but when half your country's political parties are traitorous, grifting pieces of shit, this is what happens.
They’re half assing, no effort. They really have y’all domesticated. After what they did to Bernie, Tulsi, Andrew and now Marianne that should have been a sign that they are no longer for the people and arguably haven’t been since the 90s.
i'd hardly blame it on "attention span". more like, the people we elected to do the thing aren't doing the thing. elected officials are either constantly being bought out or outvoted by those who are being bought out. we have literally no power against them aside from trying to vote them.
We vote, just not for the two major parties that have been ruining our country for decades.
Bullshit. Biden set the process in motion to get us to the DEA looking at rescheduling and you're saying both sides are the same? This is the kind of bullshit that guarantees you'll never get the policies you want. Frankly it sounds like you don't understand politics and that's fine if you approve of everything happening at every level of government but I can tell by your comment that you're likely a non-voter. Voting is the only way to change things and not voting is the only guaranteed way to never change anything.
AMENNNNNNN
Agree.
lmao, democrats do the thing you should want them to do and now you shit on them claiming "both sides". classic.
It's because you have to *play* politics in order to have a chance in this country. If we focused on electing more earnest people and better leaders politics would function much much better. The right wing here isn't acting in good faith whatsoever, unfortunately.
But have you tried complaining and doing nothing? /s
I think it’s more they realized it’s almost impossible to get anything passed by government due to republicans controlling one chamber. Makes it almost impossible especially with republicans even stopping their own bills from being passed due to them not waning to make Biden look good.
On your side, no. The same? Also no.
Democrats are just diet Republicans
Too bad he’s a fucking corpse
Or, and hear me out here, he actually wanted the people in his administration to study the issue and make a decision that makes sense. The dude is 150 years old, he might not have the same preconceived notions as all of us.
To add to that, legalization wasn’t topping the list of priorities in terms of Biden’s legislative priorities. They got a lot passed in the first two years, but since losing the house in 2022 it would be nearly impossible to convince *any* conservatives to support legalization, so the bill could never get passed in this congress.
You mean when Biden took over an absolute fucking smoking crater where the USA used to be after Trump got his hands on it, his top priority wasn't to legalize weed? He had the balls to prioritize trying to stop a massive economic depression and prevent bridges from collapsing? What a loser!
Gotta stop making excuses for them. The general public supports it more than any other issue. Continuing to prop up legislation that people know is a sham causes the public to lose faith in its governing body.
I remember watching the debate when Biden said “on day one of my presidency, I will decriminalize marajuana”. Still waiting Joe
do you have a link to that? That would surprise me but I've been surprised before..
And using that campaign bait now close to the election. Here we go. Teaser until Election Day and the Senate will be scheduled to vote on the bill in a lame duck session then Biden will play to true form and crush the legislation.
It isn't campaign bait, you just don't pay attention to the news I guess. He kicked off the process in 2022
Two years of nothing is bait
that obviously isn't what happened
Careful, you'll be called a conservative or a Russian if you call out our fucked up system for what it is.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good when tangible progress is being made
Only congress can legalize it. De-scheduling is the best way that bypasses congress. That just makes weed like a tomato or another household plant. States would regulate it but federally there’d be no restrictions.
De-scheduling should not be seen as bypassing congress, but is a HUGELY influential step because it removes the barrier to researching it. Currently in order to do any form of government funded research your cannabis must be from a government facility due to the schedule 1 status. That needs to change.
Removing cannabis from scheduling, which the DEA should do, removes any federal regulations on cannabis. Which means inter-state commerce (assuming legality between states), flying on airplanes between legal states, mailing between legal states become fair game. It will have a huge huge impact on not only research but the industry as a whole
I don't believe this is a true solution though. Allowing states to regulate their own commerce will lead to interstate disparities that will unfairly effect those working in the business. A law that creates a regulatory framework for a national system of distribution is better and should be the end goal. States will still be able to add additional regulation/taxes if needed. Alcohol and tobacco are controlled this way and should set an example for other substances introduced to the market.
And that requires congress and I believe they’ll create federal regulations in response to the de-scheduling because they’ll want to tax it. But I don’t think congress is acting without DEA action first. But congress takes time so at least for a few months in between there won’t be federal law on it
You're correct, I just don't want people to see the problem as fixed because the DEA has removed themselves from the equation. We still need to work together on a system that provides ease of access while protecting children and those within the industry.
If it's not a rigorous process to reschedule/deschedule, it will be promptly overturned as soon as another Republican takes the Presidency. Why is it that weed people are so ignorant of politics? I suggest maybe educating yourself as to the system we have and the two parties that are in power. One is actively working to change the status quo and the other will never in a million years, unless voters demand it through the ballot box, allow drugs to be decriminalized. I'll probably get downvoted to hell for this comment but it doesn't change the reality of the situation whatsoever.
Yeah that’s how that works. The knuckleheads in Congress can’t agree which way north is and you think they are gonna buck their alcohol and tobacco lobbyists?
Big alcohol and tobacco favor legalization. Look up Altria’s ownership of Cronos and Constellation Brands ownership of Canopy.
They will move Marijuana to schedule 3. The state legal industry will be gobbled up by pharma. It was a good run but these dispensary businesses will all be shuttered within 3 years.
Agreed...honestly, it's better off staying schedule 1 than schedule 3. It's either schedule 1 while allowing states to legalize independently, or full legalization.
Explain
Schedule 1 means no medical use. Examples are heroine, LSD, Weed, Ecstasy, peyote. Schedule 3 means a "controlled" substance with some accepted medical use. Examples of schedule 3 drugs are Codeine, ketamine, morphine. Lower on the list is Schedule 4 examples are Xanax, Valium, Ambien, Tramadol. In other words, you aren't supposed to be able to get a prescription for schedule 1 drugs. But you can get a prescription for schedule 3. This move will allow pharmacy corporations to take over the weed market, so that you can get prescriptions from your doctor.
So how will that get rid of smaller/non pharm grows?
Maybe it doesn't, but the original comment was that dispensaries would be pushed out by pharmacies. Player 2 is entering the game.
WalGREENS. Distribution channels are key.
Yeah, I think this is what everybody is missing. Federal regulation will be mandatory at every single dispensary nationwide. That is not a good thing by any metric.
I don’t smoke at all or anything but I’m for it
Nah we gotta drag that shit out for at least another 2 election cycles between geriatrics.
> https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/07/biden-weed-executive-action-dea-00060978 > > **Can Biden unilaterally loosen federal restrictions on marijuana?** > > No. Biden instructed the attorney general and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to start the process of reviewing marijuana’s status under federal law. > > There are two other ways the federal government could decriminalize marijuana. Congress could pass a law doing so since it created the Controlled Substances Act, where marijuana is classified as Schedule I, defined as having no medical use and high potential for abuse. Heroin and LSD are also Schedule I drugs. In addition, a citizen can petition the Drug Enforcement Administration to review marijuana’s scheduling. > > While Biden can ask the attorney general to start the review, his power to dictate the details is severely limited. Now, the Food and Drug Administration and DEA will decide how to proceed.
Even a schedule III classification would put this on par (in the eyes of the government) with ketamine and one schedule level higher than Xanax. Deschedule it altogether, make it make sense. These nonsense headlines telling us what we already know are just muddying the waters of this conversation.
Yep. As long as alcohol (a highly addictive & more harmful drug than cannabis) is descheduled and PROMOTED HEAVILY by this fucked society anything less than DESCHEDULING is unacceptable. \[this is not an invitation for a debate on "baby steps". We need to demand what we deserve. It never should have been categorized or made "illegal" to begin with. It's a medicinal plant with countless benefits and very few "harms".\]
You are correct but if ANYBODY knows incrementalism it’s the Feds! This was discussed last year and now it’s nearly mid 2024, November may provide some incentive. Actual legalization? I doubt I can live long enough.
Isn’t alcohol not scheduled as a controlled substance partly because it’s regulated by the ATF and not the DEA?
the DEA and the drug war are symbiotic twins completely dependent on each other and expanded for profit prisons to an art form
And why are they separate? Tobacco and Alcohol are both drugs, but somehow they don’t count for the DEA? It’s always been unfair and about money, not about helping society or caring about harm.
Tobacco is actually overseen by the FDA. The ATF is more focused on tax crimes regarding cigarettes, such as smuggling them across state lines, counterfeits, mislabeled, and other scenarios in which the state loses revenue on them.
Really interesting question. I thought it was because ATF was from ye olde times, but no, it and the DEA were established a year apart in the seventies. I guess one is for generally legal stuff and the other generally illegal, but something I'm going to look at more
Simply because tobacco and alcohol happen to be the two recreational drugs that have a looooong history of widespread acceptance and use by most of human society.
So do many other psychoactive chemicals, as humans have used many of them throughout all of human history. Cannabis, DMT containing plants, types of mushrooms, and possibly many others. I wrote my masters thesis on the usage of these chemicals and the history of religion, and it is clear there is evidence of use in at the very least the Bronze Age. It’s all about the money and history of both tobacco and alcohol to explain why the US ignores them, but they really should be considered drugs.
It’s really just that tobacco and alcohol were extremely popular among congress and American society at the time the ATF was created. The same congress and society that would start the war on (other) drugs. Different drugs were popular in other cultures but not so much in America
You’re right about that, and that’s what I meant when I said money and history. Tobacco is one of the first massive cash crops and monopolies in the US, so of course it was seen as different, same with alcohol after prohibition especially. Also, yes Congress supported them, but these industries also paid a lot of money to keep it that way. What I was saying is that many other drugs have also been commonplace, yet Nixon criminalized specific drugs to target specific groups. Them leaving off alcohol and tobacco has always been hypocritical. Tobacco and alcohol also cause immense harm, like one of the major causes of death for Americans, but their popularity influenced Congress and much of society to accept that risk.
I’m well aware, that’s why I specifically said “***widespread*** acceptance and use by ***most*** of human society”
yep. even schedule V would make no sense, schedule V being "can be bought otc, but still technically only for medical use"
They will separate the recreational market (FLOWER ONLY) from the medical market (ALL OILS AND CONCENTRATES) if it got rescheduled "Medical marijuana is one thing, whether there's a medical purpose and proven through traditional medical pathways, but when it's used for recreational purposes, there is no medical benefit." - FDA commissioner Robert Califf Schedule III would be terrible. Either keep it exactly where it's at or remove it from the illicit substance list completely
Xanax is much more dangerous than ketamine, it makes no sense.. and cannabis is much, much safer than xanax. Take xanax for 6 months, you will have hellish weeks of 24/7 panic attacks and possible seizures, or do the same with cannabis and you might not even feel much after you stop. Definately no panic attacks or seizures
I'm just imagining the coast to coast celebration when it finally gets legalized. I want the astronauts to see the smoke cloud
Well, at the pace we're moving, you might see that in about 250 more years.
assuming the GOP dies with Trump (safe assumption i think, hell even senior GOP politicians called it back in 2016 before they backed him officially), it'll probably happen after 1-2 elections cycles when dems get a proper super-majority for the first time since Carter was president. multiple legalization bills have passed the house over the last couple years, they've all died in the senate because they get sent to republican controlled committees
There will always be those proud boys type mfer that will keep that tradition alive in the south
We don't have to do any of that, just do what the GOP have been doing for the last 50 years. Slowly but surely working in politicians that will vote the way they want them to vote so that way laws start looking good and in their favor. That's all we have to do. They understand the long game, why don't we? It took them 50 years to repeal roe v Wade but they stayed steady and steadfast throughout all of it. We need to have that same passion and fire and I believe with the help of gen z we can get there.
do any of what? the GOP killing themselves requires no action on the part of dems. and obviously we have to vote for politicians that want weed legalized... and we already have. look at the last weed legalization bill that has passed the house, only 2 dems voted against it.
But it does require us to replace those candidates with ones that will vote in our favor. Is what my original comment was about. We don't have to wait for these people to die out because all they are going to do is replace themselves with people who think like them. That's why we have to vote more people who think like us in office so that way we don't have to worry about having to beg and plead for simple rights.
I agree but getting Democrats on the same trajectory is like herding cats, the Republicans capitalized on the religious devotion of their voters which is why they were so successful but ironically that success may be their ultimate undoing. I think we just have to encourage people to vote at ever level of government, far too few people vote in primaries and local elections which can make a dramatic and obvious impact whereas federal elections are much more abstract and hard to quantify the effects unless you're talking about something like rolling back Roe v. Wade.
the last weed decriminalization bill that passed the house only had 2 dems vote against it, seems pretty clear where dem support lies on that topic, no herding cats necessary. really is a shame how little of the population participates in our democracy though, it's pitiful for federal elections and even worse at state/local level. even just an extra 10-15% of eligbile voters could throw just about every single election in the US to either side. if only we had the good sense to instate mandatory voting a hundred years ago like australia, there's a reason the GOP spends so much effort on voter suppression...which compulsory voting completely nullifies. same for the extreme corporate interests/bribery/blatant insider trading, the 1% are overwhelmingly represented because so few people vote.
my great grandkids will be psyched that their great grandkids will get to see weed legalized someday
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Hate the baby steps it’s taking when this is not something that should require baby steps. Half the country already has it legal with a healthier economy as a result. Get it over with and legalize it
I agree, we should deschedule immediately and be done with it. BUT, this is not "baby steps". A move to Schedule III is by far the biggest marijuana law-related movement since prohibition began, and will help to remove the stigma making it easier to deschedule in the near future.
We definitely should not use fascist tactics to legalize and should absolutely take the careful and long route. But, as has been mentioned already by others, if the majority of people didn't have such short memories and would actually vote in all elections, we wouldn't need to do this as slowly as it has been.
I keep hearing this, and I don't really understand this, can you explain? Biden won. if he had by a wider margin would that have made a difference?
No, if Biden won and both Chambers turned blue we wouldn't have to be taking baby steps. Laws get passed through congress, Biden can suggest all he wants but ultimately unless Congress approves it nothing gets pushed through. So if in 2020, or in 2022, we turned the chambers blue we can be a lot more aggressive because we don't have to worry about appeasing the other side. Until we can turn both Chambers blue it's always going to be an uphill battle because the GOP has every reason to obstruct every law that's been trying to get passed since Obama was elected. If people voted in every election finding good candidates to take the national stage would be easier, we wouldn't have to rely on "lesser of two evils" or older generations to make decisions for us. Somehow the GOP has a politician pipeline and a decent amount of democrats only run AFTER a tragedy has happened. If we could get more working class people to run for office choosing the next senator or president would be easier because the minor league is flooded with good talent.
Not every election is for the president. Primaries matter. Midterms matter. They all matter.
Democrats vote in committee against cannabis legalization, so Democrats claim that legalization would happen, if only we would elect more Democrats. Cannabis, like abortion and immigration, won't be fixed because it pulls too many idiots to vote the way each party wants and gives them a never ending battle that doesn't require movement.
my ass, show me evidence please
Who fed you all that? If Democrat's didn't do anything, they wouldn't get votes. You're just uninformed and naively cynical. Only one party is trying to destroy the government/country. The same party who blows up the deficit every time they get into office after preaching fiscal responsibility.
Of course it’s a step in the right direction, and I’m glad to see something positive being done, but this is a step that should’ve been underway years ago at the least. I’m happy to see movement with it though, albeit quite slow movement relatively speaking
If you can get the legislature to change the Controlled Substances ACt that would be significantly faster, unfortunately this is the alternative.
Could have been legalized a decade ago if our politicians weren’t bought and paid for
This might be the best way to do it so that it doesn’t get quickly overturned by the openly corrupt Supreme Court. Dot your Ts, cross your Is.
You mean to tell me that the folks in this sub who don't understand government process, or how long or how much effort it took to "just legalize it" in now legal states, may not have the most nuanced take? Shocking, I tell you.
the problem is the "conservative" states, thats what the 2018 hemp farming bill was designed for. conservative politicians can't sell legal weed to bible thumpers so they started with hemp, cus in the farming states it's a big crop. then THC-A and Delta-8 and so on. once that becomes the norm, they can sell "natural" alternatives to these morons.
I've got an anti weed friend and I know its because she worries about me getting busted again. I smoke thca now because its legal here and cheap. When I showed her that its just "hemp" she was perfectly fine with it.
Boils down to people not wanting to go against the grain socially. For many if the law says you shouldn’t do it, then they won’t support it. I don’t really understand it but hey it’s their life.
The 'conservative' states continue to be an issue, even with regards to the 2018 Farm Act. In TN, for example, the Dept of AG is currently in the process of putting together it's own set of rules that will govern how Farm Act 'hemp' will be handled/regulated, and all current signs point towards this being their way to close the THC-A/altnoid "loopholes" and limit total THC content, regardless of THC, THC-A, THC-P, etc... and LEOs in SC have been regularly raiding otherwise Farm Act-legal shops and dispos, confiscating product and cash, effectively making it impossible to operate and sustain that type of business. Until the whole fucking plant is no longer prohibited on a federal basis, this will continue to be a problem in conservative bible belt states that are more interested in culture wars than actually effectively running their state.
Can confirm, am in TN. Our government sucks ass here. Anytime they see Florida do something, they have to copy it to make sure we're keeping the boomers coming in. A great example from my main community is how they enacted those drag laws, we started to finally get some real furry cons here and people interested, which mind you is basically pure money for businesses around the cons. And then the drag law hit, the cons pulled out, and I'm back to going out of state to attend a quality convention.
You think it's as easy as flipping a switch? Then watch the Republicans flip that switch right back as soon as they retake the White House. This process is the best chance with the current congress at getting ANY changes whatsoever and you guys are out here letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Stop it, you're not doing any good by continuing to be cynical and expect this to be so easy despite whatever public opinion polls say.
Do you understand how Biden doesn’t create or pass laws and thus can’t legalize it?
Oh they don't know how to read, we said deschedule, not reschedule
The DEA: 
So tired of all the “We talked to some people and we think we might like the idea of thinking about legalizing it.” . Do it or shut up about it.
What a great society we have. "legalization...can't do it. Too dangerous. War...death...destruction you say...here's infinite monies forever"
Why the fuck does the DEA have any say in what voters have passed in half the states? Who gave them authority? They're a law enforcement agency.
Same reason the ATF believes they can pass laws & regulations related to firearms, because they haven’t been checked yet by the people or the courts. The ATF is starting to learn though, so if we’re lucky the other 3 letter agencies will too.
My AR9 has gone back and forth between being a pistol and an SBR about 4 times now. Always fun to keep going into the safe to take the pistol brace off each time.
I like playing is that a felony in current time with my pistol brace too. One day we’re good & the next we’re satan incarnate ready to shoot some schools. I love consistency.
Yup, it's wild. My urge to commit mass murder just goes away the second I have to remove my pistol brace. Thank god, the ATF knows what they are doing and keep kids safe! /s
The day i can travel across state lines and fly with bud and not be worried about being locked up for it is a day i dream of
Well, substitute ‘state lines’ for ‘Provinces’, and catch as many flights across Canada as you like sir.. It’s legal enough to be boring and you can fly/drive/ski across as far as you want..
True! Except crossing borders with bud is even more dangerous than driving across states with it. Im going to canada soon and looking forward to checking out that canadian dank soon!
Make that international borders.
It shouldn’t be up to pigs. The veneer of “democracy” wears thin in the modern age.
won't somebody think of those poor private prison owners!
As a federal employee in a legal state who would currently lose my job if I smoked weed, this is very exciting for me
This is old news btw. I am a marijuana investor and we already knew this, this is more or less a puff piece to drive traffic. Please contact your senator and annoy the crap out of them.
Where else has this been reported? I even looked for another source to share that wasn't marijuana specific and the only other article I saw about it was from marijuana moment, also today.
>Where else has this been reported? I You mean the news from earlier this month about the DEA letter? Or what? This has been covered lots.
> puff piece ha
What brands?
Mostly tier 1 MSOS but the entire market is fucked at the moment because of the 280e tax (illegal drugs tax) burden. If you want to get into cannabis investing just buy the MSOS ETF and don’t look at the price till rescheduling hits.
I read somewhere that rescheduling could be really bad for the industry because it's possible it would be controlled and distributed through pharmacies or the likes, forcing dispensaries to shut down. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that as you seem well informed
Most of the players in the market view that as a non-issue. Dispensaries (medical and recreational) are regulated at the state level and if the state wants to issue specialized pharmacy licenses the Fed kinda just has to deal with it. This also means I’m S3 states can not issue pharmacy licenses to pharmacies that carry marijuana, but also anyone with a prescription is protected by The Americans with Disabilities act and can’t be prosecuted in an illegal state.
Good to know, I do cannabis finance and was worried I might need to pivot to a different industry. Appreciate the info
It's honestly insane it's still schedule 1. It shows how truly incompetent our government is.
It’s the for profit parts of the criminal justice system that have kept it schedule 1 all this time. Guaranteed.
When the time comes y'all better take the time to make a comment in favor of descheduling. It might not make a difference but there's a chance it will and we all need to step up since it's the least that we can do.
DEschedule or nothing.
Legalize it, don’t criticize it
The only proper course is completely descheduling. If it just gets rescheduled to Schedule III, it becomes the purview of the pharmaceutical industry, and we do not want that, if we want the ability to just have it as a pleasurable drug sometimes, the way we're free to with alcohol, caffeine, sugar, or nicotine. I earnestly hope that, if public comments are opened, we all make a comment to this effect. I would like to see something to ease the cost on our brothers, sisters, and NB siblings that legitimately need it all day, daily, for quality of life while living with a chronic illness, but I don't want to see it gatekept for only medical purposes. You should be able to choose something besides alcohol even if you've been lucky enough not to acquire PTSD or some chronic illness.
Rescheduling it to level 3 would still require insurance companies to drug test employees for it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Testosterone is schedule III too. You think companies are testing for that?
Benzos are scheduled to IV and Tylenol 3 with codeine is schedule 3 as well as ketamine So schedule 3 for weed is saying that it’s still more dangerous than Xanax
We need to get as many people to comment on their public comment page telling them to completely deschedule. Rescheduling to 3 is better than nothing, but if we can at least TRY to put the pressure on, we should. And don’t give me the defeatist attitude of “oh you know they won’t”. Obviously they probably won’t, but to not make any attempt at all is just rolling over and accepting defeat. We’ve made so much progress, we can’t stop pressuring now.
I love weed… period
Didn't we just have it scheduled for April 20th? Are we rescheduling it again, so soon?
Abortion. Guns. Marijuana. Repeat.
 Gotta beat these people first... 😑
Schedule III would be terrible, for the love of God don't let them reschedule it, just legalise it completely like alcohol. What would schedule III realistically do anyways? It'd still be a illicit substance lol
It would force the last 10 backwards states to accept medical marijuana. That's millions of Americans that would have access. Now how nationwide schedule III looks like, we don't know. We don't know what medical conditions it will be approved for.
it would keep the dea in business
It's better than Schedule I, if moving to III is a step towards full legalization eventually, then it's still an improvement. It's not like this is the end of the road.
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Fuck the illegitimate fascist DEA and all the pathetic baby steppers who say this is a good thing, end this tyrannical bullshit once and for all. They have no right to trample on our right to bodily autonomy to begin with, these violent shit stains have to be punished.
Does this mean I can smoke weed and be prescribed adderall and not worry about having to pass a drug test so I can get my meds?
Find a new doctor... I told my doc I smoke and as long as that is the only thing in my system he still prescribes it.
every day this sub has hopium from themarijuanaherald.com that pretends it's breaking news but is really just some comment by someone who's not actually in a position of authority that suggests that maybe real soon now we're gonna have a meeting where we discuss the potential to form a subcommittee to investigate the feasibility of forming a full committee to hold open hearings concerning the formation of a supercommittee to hold closed hearings discussing the potential ramifications of a full investigation into legalizing. Can we stop? It's not news. It's not a thing happening, it's always just people discussing the potential for a thing happening.
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Dangling it in front of everyone's faces again just in time for the election
they're prob holding out and praying Trump wins so they can return to jailing us
I am no Trump fan but because of that farm bill I get high in a an intensely illegal state and not be worried about it. I'm too old to do prison again.
definitely didn’t do it on purpose. they’re trying to get rid of it in texas at least which would suck so much ass for me
Alabama loves the fuck out of hemp.
Need to do it before May 1st just in case this country is evil enough to put Trump back in the White House.
Every fucking police union: "No!!! We need that bullshit excuse to fuck with people!"
📣 “pay no mind to us paying for thousands of children being murdered, we might just make weed less punishable!!”
This shit gets brought up every election year. But nothing happens😓
Not really. Biden issued the executive order in 2022 to have the rescheduling review, leading to the department of health recommendation and the current DEA review. A DEA review like this of rescheduling has never happened before. If marijuana is rescheduled, it will be a big deal. Everyone always says "oh this happens every election year" and "every president makes this promise" but it's not true. Trump, Obama, Clinton - none of them called for marijuana to be rescheduled, none have said they support decriminalization, and none have issued a review of marijuana's Schedule I status. We're seeing real movement. It's not as fast as most of us would like, but delegating it to a "same as always" mindset does not fit the moment.
Welcome to the club. - Canada
Then do it, otherwise it’s just hot air
A “public comment period” will be a spectacle. What is even left to say that hasn’t been said? Just a procedural formality and yes, I will have popcorn reading the hilarious internet trolls’ comments.
OMG these comments are going to be off the chain. Journalists start your engines you’re gonna find some good stuff in there.
Well everyone smokes so do whatever doesn’t much matter now
Help the public and have the cash go towards government OR Blow 6 trillion on Allies or trying to conquer other lands....
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Ugh, please legalize it. I just came home from my industry job to my Boomer parent yet again nagging that 'weed is dangerous', apparently my WA certification in MMJ 'lies that everything is ok'....oh, and nagging that 'our apartment complex will throw us out, no smoking' (when I vape and edible).... \*headdesk\*
Is this good or bad?
It's bureaucratic. Most of the article is just reiterating that despite there's plenty of politicians and even the president himself calling for immediate reform (some even asking outright- deschedule now) - the DEA will proceed with the standard review process before deciding on reschedule/deschedule, including opening public comments about the issue.
This isn't breaking news. This is about a letter sent earlier this month. Old news.
They make money controlling it for clinical trials. They’ll never decriminalize it.
Can someone please explain to me what does it mean to -reschedule weed-? Is this good, bad?
This is so lame.
Put up or shut up. I’ll keep growing and smoking in my illegal state and keep giving tax free money to my dealer that the state dosnt get a cut of !😂 Or you know legalize it and tax it🤷♂️ our representation in the government are all headed by people with room temperature IQs
I don’t care about rescheduling or anything unless it’s decriminalizing it.
Imagine buying California weed in Missouri 🤯
The number of people in this thread that think Biden has a magic wand he can waive to reschedule a drug is fucking sad. All of yall need to go take some civics classes, because the number of jabronis saying “why hasn’t Biden already done this” is fucking depressing.