Just a reminder that if trump is elected, he will reverse this immediately only because Biden did it.
That’s not speculation. That’s a godamn fact.
I don’t care which clown it is, burn the circus down!
If you wanna burn yourself and all of us down then vote Trump/don’t vote. At least with Trump you won’t ever need to vote again.
You realize you’re inside the circus right? Burning it down quite probably means you and everyone you know burns to death too right?
The circus is in DC, a grotesque megalomaniacal mental illness masquerading as an empire.
The circus is the US. The ringmaster is in DC. We all live in the circus, surrounded by clowns and lions, but if you set the tarp on fire, we all burn. We need a new circus.
I don’t smoke, but I don’t care what you do to your own bodies as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.
The same goes for women’s autonomy and assisted suicide. It’s your god damn body. As long as you don’t hurt anyone else. Who fucking cares.
I’m also in the same boat for AI generated porn. If it doesn’t hurt anyone, who cares.
Some critics argue the DEA shouldn’t change course on marijuana, saying rescheduling isn’t necessary and could lead to harmful side effects.
I wonder who those fuckheads are and how much of their portfolio is invested in for profit prisons.
That’s the harmful side effect. They’ll make less money.
Some critics argue the DEA shouldn’t change course on marijuana, saying rescheduling isn’t necessary and could lead to harmful side effects.
I wonder who those fuckheads are
https://duckduckgo.com/?&q=police+no+longer+allowed+to+use+smell+of+marijuana+for+probable+cause
Search link not because I’m being a smartass, but because there are so many articles with the same context in different parts of the country.
Womp womp. Sorry you’ll have to give up your second favorite pretext, cops.
The only thing that proves those worries wrong is every single place where marijuana has been legalized and regulated has less crime and more taxes collected through regulated legal sales. So, just reality.
Never let reality interfere with your politics.
/s…obvs
It seems so out of touch when people make these arguments these days as they pretend like marijuana is some mystery drug that’s barely used when in reality it’s already medically legal in 4/5ths of the country and recreationally legal in 1/2 the country.
Our founding fathers grew and used hemp. For decades, the cotton industry was famously the largest lobbying agent against its legalization. It’s gotten a bad rap for centuries.
Our founding fathers grew and used hemp.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Love that movie! 😂 Check ya laaaterrr
I thought the decline of hemp production in the 1950s (180 years after the American Revolution) was due to the availability of synthetic fibers. But you’re saying it was Big Cotton?
I’ve read articles that state both cotton farmers and DuPont (rayon) were against it. There’s a really interesting paper that was featured on leafly.com on the subject, but I’m not seeing it now.
While I agree it should be 100% legal across the board someone made a good point. Once it’s rescheduled we could see it be classified at a medicine and ban recreational use then they’ll shoot the price through the roof re-opening the black markets. It’s worth treading carefully while we learn future plans that aren’t being spoken of loudly enough.
The thing is, if it gets rescheduled it will be entirely up to the states to handle growing the plant. I fully expect places like Wyoming to continue the draconian laws (like they just did with D8, it’s a felony after June 1st, farm act be damned) but most places will just regulate based on their current laws. What worries me is the ATF being assigned as the federal regulatory body, but that would only happen with it being a taxable, saleable, product. I don’t forsee big pharma being able to do much with rescheduling, it’s too easy to grow.
Holy hell, conservatives are such gigantic pieces of shit. Fuck red states, their beauty is absolutely destroyed by these anti-freedom cretins.
Yeah, red states are holding this nation back in a huge number of ways. Wyoming still publicly defends racism and hate speech under the guise of “free speech”. Check out the statements made by the University of Wyoming regarding a guy that comes onto campus specifically to harass and spew hate at transgender people this year. The college not only gives him his own table in the student Union, they encourage him to harass people. It sparked entire groups of people to literally scream racism and hate speech at people all over town because “muh freedoms”. It’s bad. Being a minority in this state is legit scary.
Seriously fuck the fact that Marijuana is still illegal, broken ass racist bullshit system while alcohol is legal and marijuana is not.
Still makes me sick to think of all of those cunt fucking cops who sent people to prison for this shit.
Absolutely, and the DEA is a fucking failure, we have an opioid epidemic and they’ve done absolutely nothing to help the US. Complete fucking bullshit agency that does NOTHING to help the American people.
i wish that they would also reschedule lsd and psilocybin to schedule III, but at least some progress is better than no progress
And MDMA? It shows a lot of promise in therapeutic use. Schedule 1 is for substances with “no currently accepted medical treatment use”.
Yeah, MDMA also doesn’t belong in schedule I, although it is definitely more risky than lsd and mushrooms
How so?
Overdose of MDMA can cause seratonin syndrome, which can be fatal; and long term use might be linked to depression and anxiety (again, by the way it interacts with seratonin)
It definitely should be rescheduled too, since it is not dangerous enough and definitely has potential for medical use (couple therapy was it’s original use)
If Alcohol isn’t scheduled, why is marijuana?
Because they used it as a tool to hunt down and arrest civil rights groups and Vietnam protestors.
Marijuana was considered a black person drug. If you didn’t know, the US kinda hates black people, statistically speaking. It’s pretty fucked up!
According to the available information, there is no direct mention of the percentage of black people who used marijuana in the 1960s and 1970s. However, we can infer some information from the provided snippets.
In the 1970s, marijuana use became more widespread among the general population. According to Gallup’s trend by age, widespread experimentation with marijuana first occurred among adults aged 18 to 29 between 1969 and 1973, rising from 8% to 35%. It then continued to mount, reaching 56% by 1977, and remained at that level in 1985.
It is important to note that the available information does not provide specific data on the percentage of black people who used marijuana during this time period. However, we can infer that marijuana use was more prevalent among younger adults, particularly those in the 18-29 age range, during the 1970s.
In terms of the potency of marijuana during this time period, reports suggest that pot in the 1970s had THC levels of around 1%. In contrast, today, the herb you’re smoking has a lot more THC, with levels averaging more than 6-8%. Some specially grown plants can contain THC levels as high as 51%.
It is also worth noting that a 2022 analysis of marijuana possession arrests in Texas for the years 2017 to 2019 reported that African Americans comprised 30.2 percent of all possession arrests, yet Black people comprised only 12.9 percent of the state’s population. This suggests that there may be racial disparities in marijuana use and arrest rates, but the available information does not provide specific data on the percentage of black people who used marijuana in the 1960s and 1970s.Edit: The above is kind of incorrect, the herb I smoke brags ~25%, though sources say those #s vary greatly.
Marijuana was considered a black person drug. If you didn’t know, the US kinda hates black people, statistically speaking. It’s pretty fucked up!
John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon said the following:
“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?
“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.”
"Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
tl;dr: DEA moving cannabis, ketamine, and some other stuff to schedule III; first it goes to OMB for approval, then they have a comment period, then they issue their final ruling.
Better a couple decades late than never, I suppose, but they should really just take it off entirely. Psilocybin too.
The idea that something you can just grow yourself like a plant of a fungus is illegal is ridiculous on the face of it.
What about Japanese barberry?
Sorry, I have no idea what that is.
Apparently an invasive species that affects soil PH, not many animals eat it, it attracts ticks, etc
Invasive species are covered by an entirely different set of laws and agency of enforcement.
I’m ok with putting jurisdiction over all drugs under the DNR.
What’s the likelihood of this happening before the election?
The reactionaries in the GOP will immediately start trying to prevent this from happening, of course.
Only the ones that aren’t already invested in it.
I’m sure all the “stroke of a pen” trolls are going to be here to apologize any second, right?
Probably not, all of the hardcore Biden supporters I’ve met on this website are just utter scum who will never admit to anything no matter how obvious it is, like how this obviously could have been done at any point but was saved for an election year, or how rescheduling it instead of just descheduling it entirely keeps it federally criminal and breaks campaign pledges he made in 2019 and 2020
Best thing you can do is just try to leave some truthful information where some people might see it and ignore the replies
Being mad at improvement. Impressed
The DEA’s proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, would recognize the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs. However, it would not legalize marijuana outright for recreational use.
I am really sorry for those of you who use it recreationally, because it deserves to be legal for you too, but as a medical user in a non-legal state, this is amazing news.
~~Fucking Biden must be about to unleash some truly heinous shit, if he’s playing this card ~~
I withdraw this on the basis of hearing it started in 2022 and I haven’t had time to dig into it.
Ha!! I was fucking right! A mouthpiece for your orange man-god. How many nfts did you buy from trump? How many bibles? Does he say things that make you feel seen? Hahah! Fucking bootlicker!
He started this process in 2022.
Then I withdraw my statement until I have time to determine the truth of what you say
Disband the DEA
disband america
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Maybe the drug control agency should clarify that marijuana shouldn’t be consumed at beer festivals, to protect the children.
Maybe we shouldn’t make laws about what adults can do because it wouldn’t be good for children. Unless you think we shouldn’t have beer festivals, to protect the children, and no food not pureed should be available for purchase, to protect the children.
I say this as a pothead. If you’re smoking in a public area where it’s not specifically designated and there’s people there that don’t want you to, you’re an ass.
Honestly, I would have absolutely no problem with cannabis being legal but you can’t use it in public. If I can buy it, take it home and use it without fear of arrest, that’s all I ask.
To an extent, smoking in public is fine. My regular smoke spot is in a park. But I also hike 20 minutes to it explicitly because its as far away from everyone else as possible, and the wind is usually going away from them.
Maybe I’m overcautious, but I remember walking down the street as a kid and just hating the smell of cigarettes. I never found weed as bad, but I don’t want to br the asshole who’s the reason some poor 8 year is holding their breath as you walk past them.
I was thinking public municipal streets and the like, not out in the middle of nowhere.
And honestly, I’d apply that to cigarettes too if we wouldn’t be forcing a bunch of addicted people to quit cold turkey because they can’t take smoke breaks at work.
I guess this is what you do when you want to win an election, but make it still look close.
