DEA to reclass marijuana to Schedule III

It was predictable that this would get delayed to an election year.... but at least fucking finally!!!

I mean, it’s STILL being considered worse than alcohol… but, hey… baby steps.

Sounds like a half-assed fuck up, that's still 6mo to 3y. For weed. still gonna go to jail, still get a record, still get your life ruined, still over fucking weed. The idea that jail is the appropriate punishment for drug addiction is utterly unjustifiable at this point, yet here we are, still pretending we're something other than just wrong. Sunk cost fallacy I guess. Guess they felt they couldn't just come out and do the right thing after having ruined tens(?) of thousands of lives for no reason

It moves pot to Schedule III, alongside ketamine...

Cool. Does this mean the next time the cops tell the EMTs to sedate someone they will skip the ketamine and just give the poor guy a gummy? I hope so. It'd save lives.

Ken Paxton about to sue the feds in 3...2...1

This thread demonstrates the idealogical purism and lack of pragmatic political expectations from leftists and progressives. There is literally nothing the Biden admin can do that will ever be enough because it doesn't match some rosy fucking dreamland that only lives in your heads. Descheduling is huge, and signals the end of 100 years of madness with cannabis laws. If you want more, then we need to have more legislative power to implement it.

This is a fucking win, dumbasses.

This is dumb. You’ve got thousands of recreational dispensaries all over the country. States are pretty much operating in violation of federal law already because the federal law is so out of touch. Maybe change the law to be more in line with what states are actually doing?

Do we get to wait another 50 years before they make recreational marijuana legal?

I don’t even smoke weed and I think this is dumb.

Why do we even have a DEA? It’s like putting cops in charge of which medicine you should take. They aren’t the ones who should be making the calls here.

Critics point out that as a Schedule III drug, marijuana would remain regulated by the DEA. That means the roughly 15,000 cannabis dispensaries in the U.S. would have to register with the DEA like regular pharmacies and fulfill strict reporting requirements, something that they are loath to do and that the DEA is ill equipped to handle.

Aren't these dispensaries currently registered with the DEA? Why would lowering it on the schedule change that?

will this mean it can be prescribed in every state? By any doctors? Will it be able to covered by insurance? Medicaid/Medicare?

Cops will just latch onto something else even harder

What does that mean for...my friend...that has to renew their security clearance?

10 days too late

Your username is fucking incredible.

About time

Abolish the DEA

Weed.

(This is my 1,000th comment on Lemmy!)

This is the right direction.

The proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget

Is there any federal employee we don't have to ask first?

Oh shit, skipping the hell that is II

I wonder if the UN will send another letter against this move.

Won't solve the world's problems but okay.

Imagine simping for this.

An unelected bureaucrat in an agency gets to decide how illegal a plant is. And then, they decide it's still dangerous, just not as dangerous as psilocybin, more along the lines of cocaine.

Progress, whatever, you're still under a boot.