Oregon’s got a huge “heroine” problem.
Posted on 05/01/2024 9:27:46 AM PDT by BeauBo
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, but wouldn't legalize it for recreational use.
The proposal would move marijuana from the “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III."...
...The proposal must be reviewed by... a potentially lengthy process...
...Schedule I put it on par, legally, with heroin, LSD, quaaludes and ecstasy, among others... Schedule III drugs — which include ketamine, anabolic steroids and some acetaminophen-codeine combinations — are still controlled substances...
...this move from Schedule I to Schedule III is not getting people out of jail... But rescheduling in itself would have some impact, particularly on research and marijuana business taxes. Because marijuana is on Schedule I, it's been very difficult to conduct authorized clinical studies that involve administering the drug... businesses involved in “trafficking” in marijuana or any other Schedule I or II drug can't deduct rent, payroll or various other expenses that other businesses can write off... so the proposed change would cut cannabis companies' taxes substantially.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
This is another move by the Biden Admin to stem the losses of the youth vote.
Just the first step to totally legalizing it. As if we didn’t have enough drug addicts in America.
As I recall, DJT looked into the same thing.
The first step in kicking it back to the States, where it belongs. See Roe vs. Wade.
You can be high on marijuana 24/7, but you can’t buy Ivermectin.
whatever. seems to be available in some form in storefronts on every block around here.
Does that go for heroine, cocaine, LSD, Meth, and all other recreational drugs as well?
Why not? The criminal shrinks are saying the psychedelics are beneficial. Everything goes now.
The big thing is it’s way fewer governmental hoops to go through to do experiments and studies with it. Having pot schedule 1 was always stupid. Schedule 1 is for the big nasty highly addictive things.
It's almost as if the pimps, whores and grifters in charge don't really care what happens to America after they die. (And that includes all three branches of govt.)
The Big Guy clearly thinks it will get him ten million votes that he wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.
Oregon “decriminalized” them via initiative petition (direct democracy, with a pitiful participation rate) and recently re-outlawed them via representative republicanism. Take from it what you will.
EXACTLY!
CNN:
“Currently, 24 states, two territories and DC have legalized cannabis for adult recreational use, and 38 states allow medical use of cannabis products, according to data from the National Conference of State Legislatures. State-licensed cannabis dispensaries and retail shops are expected to generate $32.1 billion in sales this year...
...However, rescheduling marijuana will not solve that federal-state conflict, the Congressional Research Service noted in a January 16 brief. The manufacture, distribution and possession of recreational marijuana would remain illegal under federal law and possibly subject to enforcement and prosecution regardless of the state’s legality.”
(Note: Use would likely continue as a disqualification to buy firearms)
Oregon’s got a huge “heroine” problem.
I swear you have never dealt with a pothead at work or in your family. we have potheads here on FR I wouldnt hire, or want to run into. otoh...they dont like me either. its their life, as long as they dont crash into me or my family.
When I was in high school that was a lot of people in my high school getting high and doing all kinds of stuff. I always figured I had to leg up scholastically because they were numbed out... maybe not.
Anyway, fast forward many years and I remember reading Camille Paglia editorials in whatever rag the company I work for at the time subscribed to and she’s pretty astute - I think she’s a Yale graduate, but I remember one thing in particular that she wrote. she was absolutely shocked by the number of people in their upper level College curriculum who failed to even finish college because they got into the drugs of the ‘60s, turned on and dropped out. Paglia maintains that many great minds were completely wasted because of the drug culture.
I took that to heart and I was glad that I took the route that I did, which was to avoid the toxins. A biology teacher explained in class one day about what the body’s reaction really was versus what human beings thought it was. Human beings often misinterpret toxic reactions as a high. Many species of fauna eat something accidentally and will avoid it, because they interpret more accurately after the toxins wear off.
Is marijuana safe? Given the hybrids that are out there today it is nowhere near the standard Mexican weed that was around in the sixties. Some of that from what I understand is approaching psychedelic properties. I’m pretty sure some of that street weed is dusted with who knows what and given that fentanyl is everywhere it’s probably a safe bet that weed is being dusted with fentanyl. Now if the government takes control... like that’s going work out.
The genisis of the WODs was white politicians making ‘jazz cabbage’ illegal because they were afraid of black men being with white women.
Its utter nonsense about weed being a class 1 when alchohol is basically unregulated.
RIDICULOUS!
Dude, wait, whut?
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