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submitted 6 months ago by 420blazeit69@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

Once OMB signs off, the DEA will take public comment on the plan to move marijuana from its current classification as a Schedule I drug, alongside heroin and LSD. It moves pot to Schedule III, alongside ketamine and some anabolic steroids, following a recommendation from the federal Health and Human Services Department. After the public comment period and a review by an administrative judge, the agency would eventually publish the final rule.

A very good development for reducing mass incarceration, but:

  1. Listen Fat, this is too little too late to save the 2024 election, if it'll have even gone into effect by then.
  2. How fucking incompetent are Democrats that they're taking the clock down to zero on this obvious win that should have been a "first 100 days" item.
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[-] abc@hexbear.net 61 points 6 months ago

Schedule III is still federally illegal to smoke recreationally so what will this actually do besides just make people get angry whenever their doctor refuses to prescribe medical marijuana because it is still de facto illegal in their state

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

Looking like you’re doing something while actually doing nothing is a democrat skill

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

Democrats and splitting the difference perfectly to piss off both sides, name a more iconic duo.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

I imagine a few days ago...

Aide 1: "We're gonna do something on wacky tobaccy."

Aide 2: "Performative bullshit?"

Aide 1: "Of course."

Aide 2: "Why?"

Aide 1: "I just came back from briefing POTUS on the Tiktok focus group data."

[-] Des@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

might like truck drivers finally be allowed to smoke if such a thing as a federal MJ card comes into being

but something like that will probably require another 5 years of political BS time wasting

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure this means doctors can hand out prescriptions for not feelin' too great. Basically legal with extra steps. And then I think this makes it literally possible to like, do the research legally needed to for regulators to push it even lower on the list without new laws being passed

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