• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You should learn how the drug schedule system works. The president can’t just snap his fingers and make it legal.

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      2 months ago

      He could absolutely put out a memo saying “if a DEA agent makes a weed arrest they will be fired” as an officer action. And besides, democrats presidents have been promising to reschedule for coming on 20 years now, the process can’t be 20-years complicated.

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        2 months ago

        Actually up until about a decade or so ago it had been Republicans who were promising to reschedule weed. The Democrats had been firmly against it until very very recently.

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      2 months ago

      Then why are they even talking about it? They haven’t the power to do anything about it, so stop claiming you will do it.

      Oh wait! Making empty promises fools idiots into voting for them.