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What Marijuana Reclassification Means for the US
Newsmax ^ | 1 May, 2024 | Newsmax

Posted on 05/01/2024 9:27:46 AM PDT by BeauBo

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, but wouldn't legalize it for recreational use.

The proposal would move marijuana from the “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III."...

...The proposal must be reviewed by... a potentially lengthy process...

...Schedule I put it on par, legally, with heroin, LSD, quaaludes and ecstasy, among others... Schedule III drugs — which include ketamine, anabolic steroids and some acetaminophen-codeine combinations — are still controlled substances...

...this move from Schedule I to Schedule III is not getting people out of jail... But rescheduling in itself would have some impact, particularly on research and marijuana business taxes. Because marijuana is on Schedule I, it's been very difficult to conduct authorized clinical studies that involve administering the drug... businesses involved in “trafficking” in marijuana or any other Schedule I or II drug can't deduct rent, payroll or various other expenses that other businesses can write off... so the proposed change would cut cannabis companies' taxes substantially.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cannabis; freedom; godsplant; marijuana; medicine; miracleplant; smellslikefreedom
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Attorney General Merrick Garland circulated this proposal yesterday (30 April) to Congress. When/if published in the Federal Register, it would initiate a formal rulemaking process as prescribed by Congress in the Controlled Substances Act. (OMB, public comment period, judicial review)
1 posted on 05/01/2024 9:27:46 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

This is another move by the Biden Admin to stem the losses of the youth vote.


2 posted on 05/01/2024 9:29:52 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: BeauBo

Just the first step to totally legalizing it. As if we didn’t have enough drug addicts in America.


3 posted on 05/01/2024 9:30:47 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

As I recall, DJT looked into the same thing.


4 posted on 05/01/2024 9:32:46 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: AlaskaErik

The first step in kicking it back to the States, where it belongs. See Roe vs. Wade.


5 posted on 05/01/2024 9:34:13 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: BeauBo

You can be high on marijuana 24/7, but you can’t buy Ivermectin.


6 posted on 05/01/2024 9:35:40 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: BeauBo

whatever. seems to be available in some form in storefronts on every block around here.


7 posted on 05/01/2024 9:35:48 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: gundog
The first step in kicking it back to the States, where it belongs.

Does that go for heroine, cocaine, LSD, Meth, and all other recreational drugs as well?

8 posted on 05/01/2024 9:36:06 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: BeauBo

Why not? The criminal shrinks are saying the psychedelics are beneficial. Everything goes now.


9 posted on 05/01/2024 9:38:18 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: BeauBo

The big thing is it’s way fewer governmental hoops to go through to do experiments and studies with it. Having pot schedule 1 was always stupid. Schedule 1 is for the big nasty highly addictive things.


10 posted on 05/01/2024 9:39:18 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: AlaskaErik
As if we didn’t have enough drug addicts in America.

It's almost as if the pimps, whores and grifters in charge don't really care what happens to America after they die. (And that includes all three branches of govt.)

11 posted on 05/01/2024 9:46:57 AM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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To: BeauBo

The Big Guy clearly thinks it will get him ten million votes that he wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.


12 posted on 05/01/2024 9:49:27 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: fwdude

Oregon “decriminalized” them via initiative petition (direct democracy, with a pitiful participation rate) and recently re-outlawed them via representative republicanism. Take from it what you will.


13 posted on 05/01/2024 9:56:13 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Erik Latranyi

EXACTLY!


14 posted on 05/01/2024 9:57:18 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: BeauBo

CNN:

“Currently, 24 states, two territories and DC have legalized cannabis for adult recreational use, and 38 states allow medical use of cannabis products, according to data from the National Conference of State Legislatures. State-licensed cannabis dispensaries and retail shops are expected to generate $32.1 billion in sales this year...

...However, rescheduling marijuana will not solve that federal-state conflict, the Congressional Research Service noted in a January 16 brief. The manufacture, distribution and possession of recreational marijuana would remain illegal under federal law and possibly subject to enforcement and prosecution regardless of the state’s legality.”

(Note: Use would likely continue as a disqualification to buy firearms)


15 posted on 05/01/2024 9:57:32 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: fwdude
Does that go for heroine....?

Oregon’s got a huge “heroine” problem.


16 posted on 05/01/2024 10:02:48 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: discostu
schedule 1 is for big nasty addictive drugs

I swear you have never dealt with a pothead at work or in your family. we have potheads here on FR I wouldnt hire, or want to run into. otoh...they dont like me either. its their life, as long as they dont crash into me or my family.

17 posted on 05/01/2024 10:10:11 AM PDT by Ikeon (My only issues with stupid people are, they encouraged to talk and post stupid opinions.. )
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To: Gay State Conservative

When I was in high school that was a lot of people in my high school getting high and doing all kinds of stuff. I always figured I had to leg up scholastically because they were numbed out... maybe not.

Anyway, fast forward many years and I remember reading Camille Paglia editorials in whatever rag the company I work for at the time subscribed to and she’s pretty astute - I think she’s a Yale graduate, but I remember one thing in particular that she wrote. she was absolutely shocked by the number of people in their upper level College curriculum who failed to even finish college because they got into the drugs of the ‘60s, turned on and dropped out. Paglia maintains that many great minds were completely wasted because of the drug culture.

I took that to heart and I was glad that I took the route that I did, which was to avoid the toxins. A biology teacher explained in class one day about what the body’s reaction really was versus what human beings thought it was. Human beings often misinterpret toxic reactions as a high. Many species of fauna eat something accidentally and will avoid it, because they interpret more accurately after the toxins wear off.

Is marijuana safe? Given the hybrids that are out there today it is nowhere near the standard Mexican weed that was around in the sixties. Some of that from what I understand is approaching psychedelic properties. I’m pretty sure some of that street weed is dusted with who knows what and given that fentanyl is everywhere it’s probably a safe bet that weed is being dusted with fentanyl. Now if the government takes control... like that’s going work out.


18 posted on 05/01/2024 10:11:35 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: BeauBo

The genisis of the WODs was white politicians making ‘jazz cabbage’ illegal because they were afraid of black men being with white women.

Its utter nonsense about weed being a class 1 when alchohol is basically unregulated.

RIDICULOUS!


19 posted on 05/01/2024 10:12:40 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: Erik Latranyi

Dude, wait, whut?


20 posted on 05/01/2024 10:43:16 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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