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Anything that will be done can be undone. It doesn’t matter if he legalizes it federally, that shits going back to full ban day one

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I disagree. Ultimately, republicans want 3 things: money, power, and exclusivity. If they can somehow make tons of money off marijuana when no one else can, they would be all for it. Basically they perpetually want Rules for Thee Not for Me.

So maybe they would revert it, but if they could find a way to make it theirs only, they would.

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It would have to generate more money than the associated prison sentences generate, and the value of slave labor is about to skyrocket.

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If they can somehow make tons of money off marijuana when no one else can, they would be all for it

That’s in fact precisely what John “crying orange leather face” Boehner did

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Not entirely sure that a major majority of Republicans are against it.

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Dems really somehow let the Republicans become the anti establishment party in less than 20 years after GW, while run an idiot who failed upwards because of inherited wealth…

I kept saying the last three elections were like Brewster’s Millions, but as much money as the wealthy throw at both parties, it might be time to question if they’re just paying the Dems to lose. And even when they do manage to win, it’s at best Joe Biden.

Not even saying the DNC is being paid to take a fall. Just that the donors throwing crazy money at primaries know that the neoliberal doesn’t have a chance in the general.

They just don’t want anyone that will fix shit getting close to a general election. So they make sure the Dem in the general is one the vast majority of Dem voters hate.

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That doesn’t much matter when the psychotic theocrats are going to be the ones in the positions of power

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Anything that will be done can be undone

trump cant recharge pardoned people. And he cant recreate purged and deleted records. He also cant retake equipment thats been given to partners on a 4 year lease.

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Anything that will be done can be undone.

Clearly we should never do anything.

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I worry that they’ll just open a can of worms and fuck up our farm bill access.

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Crime Bill Biden ran out the clock on purpose. He never had any intention to reschedule cannabis.

NONE.

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The only meaningful change for this would be via legislation, otherwise trump can just as easily undo it the same day.

Edit: looks like the process is much more complicated and actually Biden already started the process at the beginning of this year (April): https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/update-deas-efforts-reschedule-cannabis-what-you-need-know-2024-09-11/ , I don’t understand this article

Edit 2: the letter is actually asking him to try to hurry the process up (the article from September that I linked says there supposed to be hearing scheduled this Monday (Dec 2nd)). It is very misleading (as you can see from the comments), because it implies Biden is just ignoring this issue completely.

https://lee.house.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_biden_admin_re_marijuana.pdf

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looks like the process is much more complicated and actually Biden already started the process at the beginning of this year

Right. He waited until it couldn’t be completed until after the end of his term. On purpose. He ran out the clock. On purpose.

He never wanted to reschedule cannabis and dragged his feet until he didn’t have to.

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He actually started the process to review what it was scheduled as to get it changed in 2022. It like everything else surrounding our government takes forever.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-submits-proposed-regulation-reschedule-marijuana

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It like everything else surrounding our government takes forever.

Unless of course it’s something he wants to do, like sell weapons for an ongoing genocide. Then all bureaucracy evaporates into nothingness.

His hands are untied when he wants them to be.

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Everything with government doesn’t have to be slow, but congress wrote this bill so that two successive presidents would have to keep pursuing it.

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The CSA requires that such actions be made through formal rulemaking on the record after opportunity for a hearing.

Y’all still haven’t learned that the US president isn’t god king, hu? He can’t just do shit by fiat.

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You still haven’t learned that US legal precedent is God king. New rules dropped, presidential acts are all the rage. Biden just has to say those two words and he can regulate how long your ball hair is allowed to be.

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All that needs to happen is for SCOTUS to agree.

Should be easy 👍

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The time to do that really would have been before the election… He did reschedule it, but that can be undone day one. I honestly think the fascist voters would credit Trump. I’ve heard them say “already things are getting better” with no hint of irony.

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He did reschedule it

He did not. Cannabis is still Schedule I.

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He started the multi-year process to do it.

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When he knew it was too late to finish it during his term. He ran out the clock.

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Damn you’re right, they did start the process, but the DEA pushed it back to 2025 after originally expecting it this year.

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The DEA whose head Biden appointed decided to wait until the next president could block it?

I wonder if Biden ran it by Joe Manchin or the senate parliamentarian first.

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Isn’t it already ruled he has presidential immunity? Why isn’t he doing more? I understand he has some time but like… I hope there’s at least a “welcome package” for trump. I have no faith in anything anymore

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Yeah. All faith in democrats wanting to do the BAREST MINIMUM to make a difference is flat out gone. Both sides apparently want the poor dead or in prison. Republicans are just gonna make it happen faster.

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Its only immune if the supreme court deems it an official act. This court will not give him the same leeway as they will Trump.

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