US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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Post by JacobHenner » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:32 PM UTC

US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
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Post by vkou » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:38 PM UTC

It's actually wild what the executive can get done in an election year... With the side effect of dangling bait for legislators to take a contrarian, nationally unpopular position.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:38 PM UTC

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Post by Germanion » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:39 PM UTC

Finally!

Then hopefully the f... UN can do that too.

I'm totally shocked that the UN has such a hard and shitty drug policy.

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Post by spaduf » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

Germanion wrote: post #4

Finally! Then hopefully the f... UN can do that too. I'm totally shocked that the UN has such a hard and shitty drug policy.

Wasn't that a project of Reagan's?

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Post by andrewxdiamond » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:45 PM UTC

Weed being illegal on a federal level has had some interesting effects. Because of these laws, all legal weed has to be grown, processed, and retailed within a single state. So much industry and local employment has been created by the legal barriers in place.

It’s probably still a net positive to release the federal restriction, but I hope all these small/mid sized businesses don’t get gulped up by big tobacco or other mega corps

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Post by vmchale » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:45 PM UTC

Germanion wrote: post #4

Finally! Then hopefully the f... UN can do that too. I'm totally shocked that the UN has such a hard and shitty drug policy.

SE Asia/East Asia at least have much harsher attitudes on drugs. US is pretty forgiving to drug users &c.

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Post by aaronbrethorst » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:47 PM UTC

spaduf wrote: post #5

Germanion wrote: post #4

Finally! Then hopefully the f... UN can do that too. I'm totally shocked that the UN has such a hard and shitty drug policy.

Wasn't that a project of Reagan's?

I believe the concept of drug 'scheduling' was introduced in the Controlled Substances Act under Richard Nixon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_cannabis_laws_in_t....

Reagan had his War on Drugs, which resulted in the imprisonment of an order of magnitude more nonviolent drug offenders: https://www.britannica.com/topic/war-on-drugs

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Post by RobRivera » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:48 PM UTC

andrewxdiamond wrote: post #6

Weed being illegal on a federal level has had some interesting effects. Because of these laws, all legal weed has to be grown, processed, and retailed within a single state. So much industry and local employment has been created by the legal barriers in place. It’s probably still a net positive to release the federal restriction, but I hope all these small/mid sized businesses don’t get gulped up by big tobacco or ot…

'Time for them to perform due diligence and refactor their operations to take advantage of the new legal landscape to retain competitive pricing inorder for' all these small/mid sized businesses don't get gulped up by big tobacco or other mega corps.

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Post by segasaturn » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:52 PM UTC

vkou wrote: post #2

It's actually wild what the executive can get done in an election year... With the side effect of dangling bait for legislators to take a contrarian, nationally unpopular position.

Election year and not to mention that the President's numbers are in shambles with younger voters. This move feels extremely transparent to me.