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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.
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.
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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
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.
I do expect big tobacco to move in aggressively if weed is made legal.
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.
The bureaucratic process will take about two years. It's definitely not getting done in time for election.
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.
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.
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.
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, it may be illegal, but it is everywhere, along with everything else.
Singapore is restrictive, but that's across the board anyway.
Let's not forget that betel nut is everywhere... another plant based drug.