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.

https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2024/03/20/salt-lake-city-bakery-is-denied/

Guy wants a liquor license for his bakery. Does $25K in renovations and gets new insurance costing an additional $10K annually, and only after all of that does he bother to see if he can get a liquor license at that location. Turns out he can't, due to an unambiguous law, a measurement you could have taken from Google Earth, and a church (where they fucking mummify people lol) that's been around for 50 years.

The media response to lighting tens of thousands of dollars on fire because you didn't do basic shit involved in running a business? A sympathetic half-puff piece that of course never raises the idea that you could have figured this shit out on a computer in an hour for free, or maybe paid a lawyer a lot less than $35K+ to do the research for you.

The response was surprising to Abuhamdeh, who recalled other Girl Scout troops organizing to help families in Ukraine after Russia invaded in February 2022. According to the Girl Scouts website, a troop in Westlake, Ohio, collected medical supplies and pack first-aid kits to be distributed in Ukraine, and “also exchanged small gifts like friendship bracelets and cookies”.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/russias-adaptation-advantage

(No idea how links are showing up now)

I wouldn't put much stock in the assertions of this article -- they seem steeped in anti-Russian brainworms and cite no sources or specifics -- but this is the shit you stay up on if you're a "serious" Foreign Policy Expert. And the take it's running with today is "Russia is actually better at this than Ukraine now."

Today in "imagine the reporting if the countries were flipped"

By not voting for Trump. "Not voting for one guy is a vote for the other guy" is a great time saver on election day

Forty-one percent of Biden supporters say they believe people who support the Republican party and its ideologies have become “so extreme in what they want that it is acceptable to use violence to stop them from achieving their goals.” Likewise, 38 percent of Trump supporters say it is OK to use violence to stop Democrats from achieving their goals...

A significant share of respondents question if democracy is no longer a viable system of governance; 31 percent of Trump supporters said America should explore alternative forms of government to ensure stability and progress, compared to 24 percent of Biden supporters.

Like Confederate monuments that were built in the early 20th century, this was built in the 1990s. Relevant reading on what else Ukranian fascists were up to at the time.