Posted on 04/30/2024 8:48:06 PM PDT by NobleFree
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will take a historic step toward easing federal restrictions on cannabis, with plans to announce an interim rule soon reclassifying the drug for the first time since the Controlled Substances Act was enacted more than 50 years ago, four sources with knowledge of the decision said.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is expected to approve an opinion by the Department of Health and Human Services that marijuana should be reclassified from the strictest Schedule I to the less stringent Schedule III. It would be the first time that the U.S. government has acknowledged its potential medical benefits and begun studying them in earnest. [...]
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True. But legalizing things that people use to ruin themselves — while forcing employers and taxpayers to cover the health care costs of everyone — is mental retardation on a historical scale.
After reading your comments on this thread, I suspect you really should try a gummy or smoke a bowl. You are a bit unhinged about a plant. Newbie.
The entire world will reek of skunks.
It’s the dopehead pander.
Opiates and cocaine come from plants too. Noob.
“ The country’s decline is directly correlated to the rise of the use and availability of marijuana”
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It’s much more highly correlated with the rise of women voters. They’re the ones who elected the radical Dems who gave us the welfare state and who want us weak on defense.
No one supports this one more than I do. Most federal drug laws are unconstitutional. However, I still gotta ask: isn’t this something Congress needs to do? Does the actual law allow for him to do that?
A benevolent dictator is still a dictator.
That’s basically Florida this November. That and abortion.
Biden is actually making good on that promise in pieces.
Geez I thought you were railing against THC. Pick a drug dude. You need it. BTW, I have been here since 1998. Not a noob but you are.
Well you may be a long sign up ‘noob’, but you are a mental noob for sure.
You were the one that said if it’s from a natural plant that it’s ok to use and all that nonsense. Mental...
Noob.
Show me where I said that. You are the mental midget on here instigating to get attention from others. LOL! BTW Newbie, old timers know when a troll is here. I see the Viking Kitty now.
You said “You are a bit unhinged about a plant”
A plant, like I said, so are opiates and cocaine that are derived from plants noob.
Old timers need to chillax without drugs, I think. You’re saying they need weed and drugs to know?
You are a very, very silly little druggie man.
“re alcoholic beverages...as with food and obesity, most people NEVER over indulge”
Do you have stats on that,and the corresponding figures for cannabis - or are you pulling convenient ‘facts’ out of ... somewhere?
“and far fewer people, today, drink any alcohol than they did 60 years ago.”
So over time, people can make good choices about intoxicants without criminalizing them. How ‘bout that ...
Nope, intoxicants lead to addiction which means no choice. So you’re wrong.
Addictive chemicals like THC destroy the ability to make choices. That’s addiction. Or love of the drug, that you seem to have to keep advocating it.
“isn’t this something Congress needs to do?”
No. The Controlled Substances Act puts the DoJ in charge of scheduling drugs.
You are like an AI, compelled and determined and programmed to push THC to the rest.
That’s all you care about, THC. That’s you. That’s your love. THC has encapsulated you into its entire being so you push it to the rest of the world.
Aren’t you proud?
“legalizing things that people use to ruin themselves — while forcing employers and taxpayers to cover the health care costs of everyone — is mental retardation on a historical scale. “
What’s the solution: ban alcohol and unhealthy diets until health care costs are returned to individuals?
In that case, Schedule III away!
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