Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana, easing restrictions nationwide
Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana, easing restrictions nationwide
Cannabis is currently classified along with drugs like heroin and LSD. The administration is expected to reschedule it into a category that includes Tylenol and steroids.
Plans sound great, but I'll be happy once it's actually reclassified. This is long overdue.
*descheduled entirely
There's no reason for this to be on the list at all, it's less harmful than beer and has actual medical uses. Alcohol has practically no medical use, kills thousands every year and leaves thousands more with life long debilitating health problems, but it's not even a controlled substance.
I mean, it's an excellent sterilizer. It does have uses.
“The stuff they use to for sterilizing operating room… yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s okay mother.”
Prescription medications are scheduled. So medical uses isn't a reason to not schedule something.
Alcohol and tabacco were specifically excluded from the CSA. I'm pretty sure we'd need an act of congress to actually deschedule anything.
Agreed. We’ve been waiting on the DEA since HHS recommended schedule 3 in 2022. As soon as they make their formal assessment we can move forward.
Why don’t they just fully legalize it already? Haven’t like half the states already?
Decriminalization requires congressional action. It’s currently a stalled bill in the Senate.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4591/all-actions
Roughly 4/5ths have medical and 1/2 have recreational.
I have a feeling he's waiting until closer to the election because the voters have such a short memory. Thats what I would have recommended if I worked for him lol.
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
- MLK jr
careful: centrists will start calling you a tankie for pointing this out lol
I'm a fan of this quote, but I don't see the relevance here.
Biden campaigned on full legalization, can't even do that...
Do you have a source for that? As far as I can tell he supported decriminalization and allowing individual states to legalize but I don't see any sources where he supported full legalization.
Anything to avoid doing the one thing he knows is critical to getting re-elected.
The problem with a two party system - if you are politically engaged enough that Biden's stance on Israel is enough to change your vote, you probably also don't align with any of Trump's policies.
If you are a Democrat, your choices are:
- Accept that Biden is the lesser of two evils and vote for him regardless
- Somehow decide that all the explicitly stated policies that Trump is proposing are better than Biden's support for Israel, and vote Republican
- Don't vote - unless you live in a very, very blue state this is practically the same as voting Republican
- Vote 3rd party - essentially the same as not voting
America is not a democracy
Is no one going to acknowledge that a huge portion of the American electorate actually supports Israel's genocide? Part of living in a democracy is accepting that official policy reflects some mixture of the views of the electorate. If the US electorate is still mixed in its view of Israel then the official US policy should be mixed as well (which it is).
I will use my vote to push for an end to the genocide, the release of hostages, and a stable 2-state solution. But I will not abandon core democratic values just because I find myself in the minority.
If you vote for Trump over Israel, then you’re encouraging the eradication of the Palestinians.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t protest, but the options for Israel at the polls are support vs. encouragement.
Edit: It’s everything else that really differs, and should be taken more seriously.
If you vote for either of these candidates, you're encouraging the eradication of Palestine. We're currently funding and arming them in their pursuit of genocide.
Kinda funny to see this sentiment here right below the MLK Jr. quote calling out your exact point of view.
who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
In addition, this article is about his "plans" to do this. Not about his actions. Every election cycle around this time the incumbent president puts out articles about his (because there's been no her yet) "plans" to reclassify or otherwise loosen marijuana restrictions, but nothing ever happens.
Yep and then you'll get a bunch of people arguing "well the president doesn't really have much power to change things" in response to the criticism before immediately flipping to "well if [my candidate] doesn't win the next election, fire and brimstone will rain down from the sky and it will be hell on earth because the other guy will have limitless power!"
This is an argument coined by fascists that is now being used by party loyalists in both the Republican and Democratic parties because they want to maintain the status quo. This is what happens when you keep voting for one of two right-wing parties.
Yup, dangling the bait, same old bag of tricks to avoid just doing whatever they can to achieve the populist progressive policies they claim to support.