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.
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,There is good reason why they call it dope.
And those that use it
Kamala Harris is a chronic pot smoker . That’s where the goofy laugh comes from. It’s a cannabis tick.
I disagree. The people who want to do it are already doing it.
Yes it’s a state matter other than foreign importation or interstate shipment.
I agree completely. But that would involve Democrat politicians giving up power - that runs against every fiber of their being.
Many states, including solidly red states like Missouri and Oklahoma, have effectively legalized marijuana. You see signs for marijuana dispensaries on Interstate 44 in Missouri. I am no fan of legalized marijuana, but this is a battle we have lost. The Feds need to stay out of the drug issue except to prevent importation into the commerce and restricting interstate commerce.
I’ve long said the same thing. It comes up every election year.
It, the Devils lettuce, can be purchased, gotten, had, anywhere, anytime, anyplace now.
What baffles me is why the gubment has not legalized it and then proceed to tax it to the extreme. Just like cigarettes and alcohol.
They couldn’t care less about the ramifications, just seems they would want the revenue.
I have, but just because there’s people who do something a lot doesn’t mean it’s addictive on a chemical level. There’s lots of stuff out there people do way too much of, including just buying stuff. Pot is not chemically addictive and making it schedule 1 was always silly. It ain’t heroin, it ain’t crack. Having it forbidden to even use for research is an overreach.
To tax it only means creating a black market
i believe uk was the biggest exporter of weed a few years ago. kind of ironic when it is illegal there...
see, government have no problem making money off someone else.
The slow decline of civilization speeds up a little. The competency crisis worsens. The whole country will soon smell like California and Colorado.
you’ve been bamboozled, marijuana is highly addicting. Ive never met anyone who just quit.
agreed!
No. It isn’t. And you’ve actually probably met plenty. But there really isn’t any reason for anybody to be honest with you. Your attitude would inspire people to say “never mind, he won’t listen anyway”.
Yep, I admit I have a low threshold of crap stories from anyone over the age of 15. Non-medical use MJ smokers are all full of crap.
I haven’t recently read anything about the downsides to state legalization of weed.
What changed Oregon’s mind? What were the problems?
Here in FL, legalized weed is up for popular referendum as a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT this November.
I fear it will pass and be out of reach from our legislature.
But what you actually have is an inability to LISTEN. So anybody with a story that would prove you wrong (which depending on your age bracket is probably most of the people you know) would never bother to tell you.
The fact of that matter is that decades ago even the government, while still keeping pot schedule 1, admitted it is not chemically addictive. Probably 90% of the people I know (and probably well over half the people you know) at some point smoked pot. And 95% of them it’s in the past and exactly ZERO have any kind of “quitting was hard” story. Because:
It
is
not
addictive
.
And you’ll reply to this insisting it is. And you’ll just prove me right. You don’t listen. And you won’t be swayed. And that makes this done.
See ya. Better luck next time.
It means when enough users have toked themselves into befuddled unemployability, marijuana dependency (like alcoholism was) will be declared a disease and our tax money will be diverted to their support. A behavior becomes an illness and we get to pay for it.
Florida may have recourse through the courts, if the initiative petition has problems. Otherwise....
It was the other drugs that were decriminalized that posed a problem...go figure The legislature acted to repeal.
The same election in which that abomination passed, a measure containing draconian gun restrictions also passed. The courts eventually bounced that one, but it was telling (not that I needed telling) that our Governor and AG were good with it, and fought for it.
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