Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana, easing restrictions nationwide
Cannabis is currently classified along with drugs like heroin and LSD. The administration is expected to reschedule it in a category that includes steroids and Tylenol with codeine.
Plans sound great, but I'll be happy once it's actually reclassified. This is long overdue.
*descheduled entirely
There's no reason for this to be on the list at all, it's less harmful than beer and has actual medical uses. Alcohol has practically no medical use, kills thousands every year and leaves thousands more with life long debilitating health problems, but it's not even a controlled substance.
I mean, it's an excellent sterilizer. It does have uses.
“The stuff they use to for sterilizing operating room… yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s okay mother.”
Prescription medications are scheduled. So medical uses isn't a reason to not schedule something.
Alcohol and tabacco were specifically excluded from the CSA. I'm pretty sure we'd need an act of congress to actually deschedule anything.
Agreed. We’ve been waiting on the DEA since HHS recommended schedule 3 in 2022. As soon as they make their formal assessment we can move forward.
Why don’t they just fully legalize it already? Haven’t like half the states already?
Decriminalization requires congressional action. It’s currently a stalled bill in the Senate.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4591/all-actions
Roughly 4/5ths have medical and 1/2 have recreational.
I have a feeling he's waiting until closer to the election because the voters have such a short memory. Thats what I would have recommended if I worked for him lol.
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
I'm a fan of this quote, but I don't see the relevance here.
Biden campaigned on full legalization, can't even do that...
Do you have a source for that? As far as I can tell he supported decriminalization and allowing individual states to legalize but I don't see any sources where he supported full legalization.
