who are the freaks that are still against legalization?? after my state legalized it was only a matter of months before even the anti drug boomers I know to be buying gummies for their arthritis
My in laws used to get so mad at my wife for smoking pot. Recently they weren’t even a little mad to hear that I’d used it on a road trip as a replacement for Dramamine. They also have chilled the fuck out about other drugs since I described how lsd has improved my mental health.
Pot is just awesome. Best analgesic and antiemetic I can get otc, most fun one too
Old conservatives mostly. Still favored by a majority of both parties.
Pfft, for real, all my elderly relatives have some sort of cannabis rubbing cream or an extract for sleeping.
for a weed sub this comment section is wild
I think a lot of lemmings just read /c/all since most subs don’t have a ton of content.
Not a druggie, but I say legalize the doobage on a national level.
Smoking weed makes you a druggie as much as drinking coffee black makes you a crackhead.
Both of which will have to be legalised, btw.
If this isn’t enough to get people to vote I don’t know what is.
yeah never happen. too much money in law enforcement
don’t worry there’s all the fentanyl. which is a dangerous problem.
yeah but the roi just isnt as easy to get
a drug bust isn’t always about the money, sometimes it’s about the innocent civilians the police murder along the way.
this is true, but civil forfieture has been a large part of keeping law enforcement equipped
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Did she do that?
Hopefully the Republicans steal this idea
Hopefully the Republicans lose in a massive fucking landslide so their shitty beliefs and ideals that are used like hammers to hurt my fellow Americans and continue to send us into tailspins every fucking time they get involved or get power, along with the corrupt and illegitimate SCOTUS, can all eat a bag of dicks and then do us all a favor and die in a (figurative) fire together.
Maybe whatever party comes next out of their ashes will have some humanity and an IQ above room temperature for their representatives.
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Another election cycle, another useless pledge to legalize marijuana as a push to pander votes. She said this prior to running as Biden’s VP, then did nothing with her time in office.
Similarly, I recall similar propaganda from Trump in 2016 and 2020. Nothing came of that, either.
And yes, it’s tiring being this hopeful and this cynical at the same time.
Did nothing besides kick off the process intentionally designed to take more than 4 years so that two consecutive administrations would have to keep it going…
They already started to get it rescheduled. https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-biden-dea-criminal-justice-pot-f833a8dae6ceb31a8658a5d65832a3b8
Rescheduled from 1 -> 3. Not sure I understand the significance of this change other than to look like doing something without legalizing it.
How did Biden kick off the process that was designed to take more than 4 years? I actually didn’t know anything other than the push to reschedule.
Schedule 1 drugs are those deemed to have no medical use and have an extremely high likelihood for abuse. They are the first target for the DEA and have no legal use status (cannabis currently gets around this due to administration level memos to not interfere with state law, but that’s all)
Schedule 3 are those with accepted medical usage and a low or moderate likelihood for abuse. They need to be prescribed and need a prescription no older than 6 months to fill.
Essentially, if cannabis is moved to schedule 3, it becomes medically legal in all 50 states that don’t have specific laws outlawing its use (I don’t know if any of those exist). It’s a major step towards legalization and the biggest you can make without a law.
The big win from schedule 3 is ability for American researchers to study it legally and easily, on-shore. Obviously it doesn’t belong in the list with those other schedule 3s (ketamine and suboxone), but it is gonna be baby steps towards legalization so long as the powerful alcohol and private prison lobbies exist.
My fiancé studies cannabis in Canada, and making it legal didn’t really make it easier to study. Hopefully FDA makes it less of a nightmare than health canada did.
It brings the conversation up to the national spotlight, and while it’s a half measure, it’s forward progress, which itself creates inertia that can bring about real change.
That’s what Biden’s current plan is.
It doesn’t go far enough for me, but it sets up his successor to take it even further. Which it sounds like is what she’s planning to do.
Well, the VP doesn’t have a lot of leeway in the whole passing laws department, so that’s probably why she didn’t just magically make that happen.
Do they no longer make kids watch Schoolhouse Rock?
I’m just a bill. Yes, I’m only a bill. And I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill. Well, it’s a long, long journey To the capital city. It’s a long, long wait While I’m sitting in committee, But I know I’ll be a law some day At least I hope and pray that I will But today I am still just a bill.
And yes, it’s tiring being this hopeful and this cynical at the same time.
I feel you man.
