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:
- Listen Fat, this is too little too late to save the 2024 election, if it'll have even gone into effect by then.
- 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.
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
Looking like you’re doing something while actually doing nothing is a democrat skill
Democrats and splitting the difference perfectly to piss off both sides, name a more iconic duo.
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."
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
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