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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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Re: US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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Post by ranger_danger »

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…

I think they would make so much MORE money by making it federally regulated and generally accessible... the problem is that also takes away some incentive to keep spying on citizens in the name of drugs and related bad guys.

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Post by TylerE »

pests wrote: post #91
ncr100 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

THEREFORE they will be able to move CASH money out of their stores TO BANKS, resulting in fewer "smash and grab" incidents ... aka, "Hyundai meet storefront of weed shop." Looking forward to this, silly to see so many Kia "boys" being used for gross violence crimes when regulation changes could lessen it. > https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/seattle-pot-shop-cr... for example

Every dispo in my area (Metro Detroit) has concrete pillars surrounding the building, usually every two feet or so. One of the first to open a few years back got hit early and everyone seems to have learned the lesson.

The ones in DC typically seem to be either on 2nd floors or in basements. Security outside at the entrance to the steps.

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Post by celdon25 »

tensility wrote: post #464

This is not good enough, in my opinion. It's hard to treat the justice system seriously because of bullshit restrictions on victimless "crimes" like this. I'll only be okay with this if alcohol gets reclassified as Schedule III.

It's not really victimless when you have cases of psychosis and other health issues that negatively affect people around them, and put strain on taxpayers and the health system. This is Should be strictly prescription-only, and not with the rubber stamp model that "medical" marijuana clinics use. But that isn't politically correct so it's better to ignore the science and just drug the masses.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2424288/ https://treatmentmagazine.com/cannabis-2020-this-isnt-your-d...

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Post by grugagag »

hollerith wrote: post #505
int_19h wrote: post #482

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bet that CBD will be covered very quickly, because it really does work very well for so many things, so it shouldn't take long to have enough studies clearly in support of it.

Are there strains of marijuana high in CBD but almost absent of THC?

Yes

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Post by CyberDildonics »

defiamazing wrote: post #202
mannyv wrote: post #56

One major effect of this is that weed stores will be able to use banks and payment processors legally once the regulators catch up.

I don’t get why they don’t just use Bitcoin or Ethereum.

Those two specifically have super high transaction fees which basically kills their use as normal currencies.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-eth...

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Post by celdon25 »

epmatsw wrote: post #209
lambdaba wrote: post #117

Great, now do psilocybin, LSD and MDMA.

Please. It's insane that people are dying from fentanyl overdoses taking molly, absolutely not the right societal trade off to be making any more.

https://www.cdc.gov/stopoverdose/fentanyl/fentanyl-test-stri...

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Post by celdon25 »

apengwin wrote: post #131
mustafa_pasi wrote: post #123

Feels like they were keeping this card in their sleeves for when they needed a popularity boost.

It is a good thing for democratically accountable governments to do good things that the people want!

The people want to be undisturbed and untaxed by rampant mental illness too, but the average person won't acknowledge that recreational marijuana use (with today's potency levels) contributes to declining mental health.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2424288/

https://treatmentmagazine.com/cannabis-2020-this-isnt-your-d...

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Post by vehementi »

ClassyJacket wrote: post #501
a13o wrote: post #461

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think these 'gateway drug' believers will be pleasantly surprised. One reason it's a gateway drug is because of a line of thought like this: 1) Govt says cannabis is the most dangerous drug. 2) I try cannabis, nothing bad happens. 3) So when the govt says drugs are dangerous, they are incorrect? I guess I can't use their rating system and will have to base it on my own experiences. There is a trust penalty for over…

This is precisely how my thought process went back when I used to use drugs heavily. I remember a teacher telling me drugs make hair grow out of your teeth. I figured if drugs were really that bad they wouldn't need to lie about what they do.

Not to go all Godwin but a lot of people have the same reaction to news about Trump -- for some reason, people see the need to lie about and misrepresent Trump. "If he's so bad, surely people could just list off his crimes without having to try to trick me right? Must not be so bad, it couldn't hurt to give him a turn as president."

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Post by qwerty456127 »

Great news. A very sound move. Indeed, marijuana is much less dangerous of a drug yet considerably harmful in cases of chronic use in unreasonably high doses therefore should be controlled some way. What seems problematic nowadays is teenagers smoking too much. Also the idea of stoned people driving cars sounds scary. To me it seems it should be as available and legal as alcohol and cigarettes are, no less, no more.

What I'm curious about is how marijuana availability links to consumption of other drugs including hard drugs, alcohol, tobacco, tranquilizers and antidepressants. I hypothesize it may decrease these.

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