Biden only supported legalized medical marijuana, and to his credit, he did actually start the process to do that. He order rescheduling to schedule 3 which basically legalizes medical marijuana. It should go into effect around December as the DEA has dragged out the process
can’t have something you can grow in your backyard replacing all kinds of expensive pills now, can we?
It’s actually an interesting conundrum. I have several relatives in the medical field and they would love to prescribe a cannabis or psilocybin treatment but cannot due to legal blocks, so they have to write an Rx for the pills. Assuming we don’t go full Gilead in the next week the research and development of natural treatments should continue, a lot of doctors are subscribing to the “plants not pills” avenue
Don’t follow what you are saying? Legalizing recreationally is also legalizing it medically
Even Biden supported medical marijuana and he already started the process to legalize that (via rescheduling)
What he’s saying is that a lot of the forces against recreational legalization are also against medical legalization, and moreover that a lot of the “moral crusade” against it is actually just cynical anti-competitive business tactics.
Or, [sigh], maybe that’s just what I’m reading into it and he had no deeper point to make.
actually just cynical anti-competitive business tactics
yes, pharmaceutical companies lose money when people use weed instead of pain pills, or any of the other pills that weed replaces. but advocates for private prisons also want weed to stay as a schedule 1, because that means more bodies in more cells costing more tax dollars. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/13/289000532/why-for-profit-prisons-house-more-inmates-of-color
Legalizing recreationally is also legalizing it medically
but legalizing medically is NOT legalizing recreationally
Yes? Harris is saying she wants it legalized medically and recreationally. She’s supporting full legalization here and she has earlier in the campaign
I still don’t follow what you are trying to say? Unless you are just concuring with Harris?
Believe it when it happens, until then it’s just a carrot
I mean Biden has already started the process for rescheduling weed to schedule 3 for medical legalization. Process is long but it’s at the tail end with the final hearing in December. It’s not too hard to see Harris just using the same process but asking for full descheduling rather than asking them for schedule 3. Or if Dems get a trifecta, she could also try to get congress to legalize directly in law (faster than the executive branch only action)
Will this include pardons for the millions of people currently in prison for weed possession?
If this happens, surely other countries copying American policy will be a good thing for once
I just wish they would shut the fuck up and legalize it everywhere.
The hemp laws that try to define THC preach effectively legalized delta-8 everywhere and give enough plausible deniability that possession isn’t a crime anywhere so long as you learn to say “that’s hemp”
