Posted on 04/30/2024 8:48:06 PM PDT by NobleFree
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will take a historic step toward easing federal restrictions on cannabis, with plans to announce an interim rule soon reclassifying the drug for the first time since the Controlled Substances Act was enacted more than 50 years ago, four sources with knowledge of the decision said.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is expected to approve an opinion by the Department of Health and Human Services that marijuana should be reclassified from the strictest Schedule I to the less stringent Schedule III. It would be the first time that the U.S. government has acknowledged its potential medical benefits and begun studying them in earnest. [...]
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”Made legal.” Just throwing it out there that, in the country as founded, those things were not “illegal.” They were made illegal, by specious means (at the federal level). Wouldn’t a reschediling of marijuana, federally, just throw the matter back to the States, where it rightly (Constitutionally) belongs?
In the recent past Oregon tried the “legalization” scheme. It was initiated by a direct vote of the people, (democracy) and reversed by legislative action (representative republicanism) when it was found to be stupid.
Correlation is not causation.
“Wouldn’t a rescheduling of marijuana, federally, just throw the matter back to the States, where it rightly (Constitutionally) belongs?”
Sadly, no; rescheduling reduces but doesn’t renounce federal control.
”Gaslighting” is your new favorite word, eh? You should probably look it up, maybe check out some examples, because you’ve misused it (or, <gasp!> ABUSED it) repeatedly.
You know what’s a bad argument? Making baseless accusations (“the one you abuse”), and trying to limit the discussion only to marijuana.
. In no case that I know of did the “legalization” of weed make it legal to smoke it in the open, in public places. I think we’re seeing another instance of the slide into anarcho-tyranny, in that case. Selective law enforcement is a valuable tool for a tyrannical government.
Obama is doing it….
drugs and sex
what no rock n roll?
Does not those No Smoking signs also mean marijuana?
“Does not those No Smoking signs also mean marijuana?”
It’s interesting, but, no, many weed smokers operate on the principle that “no smoking” restrictions are inapplicable to them. For example, at Oracle Park where the Giants play, I’ve literally never seen someone in the stands light up a tobacco cigarette, cigar or pipe. Yet the stench of weed is around the ballpark all the time and is especially prevalent in the cheap seats in the bleachers and upper decks where insouciants stoners toke away all game long with impunity. The tobacco users clearly operate under the belief that they’re not going to get away with smoking in the stands (Though I have seen people *vaping*, presumably, nicotine).
And despite all that I managed to get BS degrees in Mathematica and Mechanical Engineering and earned enough to retire, set for life at age 60.
How is your life?
The irony drips
Ridiculous.
There are plenty of casual users ( a little daily) that do not become slaves to the drug.
The old “gateway” argument.
Not sure what it means to bamn something, but hundreds of millions of Americans are capable of using alcohol in moderation, and always have been. Alcohol doesn't induce psychosis.
Look at the results in both murders and assaults in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Colorado in the years following legalization. A sharp increase in both crimes. Look at vehicle accident rates, another sky rocketing rate, and in neighboring counties as well.
Again, the motivation for continuing prohibition of marijuana isn't driven by the wish to save users from themselves, it's to protect the innocent from the psychosis suffering dope smokers.
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