• @[email protected]
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    2038 months ago

    Some critics argue the DEA shouldn’t change course on marijuana, saying rescheduling isn’t necessary and could lead to harmful side effects.

    I wonder who those fuckheads are and how much of their portfolio is invested in for profit prisons.

    • Flying Squid
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      1078 months ago

      That’s the harmful side effect. They’ll make less money.

      • @cm0002
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        178 months ago

        Frfr, they always say harmful side effects but never mention side effects for whom lol

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        Others may be forced to contort their neurons to uncomfortable angles trying to come up with reasons thisd be bad… just think of all those hurted brains!! The humanity!!!

    • @[email protected]
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      578 months ago

      The only thing that proves those worries wrong is every single place where marijuana has been legalized and regulated has less crime and more taxes collected through regulated legal sales. So, just reality.

      • @Jimmyeatsausage
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        168 months ago

        Never let reality interfere with your politics.

        /s…obvs

    • @[email protected]
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      438 months ago

      It seems so out of touch when people make these arguments these days as they pretend like marijuana is some mystery drug that’s barely used when in reality it’s already medically legal in 4/5ths of the country and recreationally legal in 1/2 the country.

      • @disguy_ovahea
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        238 months ago

        Our founding fathers grew and used hemp. For decades, the cotton industry was famously the largest lobbying agent against its legalization. It’s gotten a bad rap for centuries.

        • AmidFuror
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          I thought the decline of hemp production in the 1950s (180 years after the American Revolution) was due to the availability of synthetic fibers. But you’re saying it was Big Cotton?

          • @disguy_ovahea
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            48 months ago

            I’ve read articles that state both cotton farmers and DuPont (rayon) were against it. There’s a really interesting paper that was featured on leafly.com on the subject, but I’m not seeing it now.

      • @Num10ck
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        38 months ago

        Alcohol sales go down, billionaire investors weep.

    • @LifeOfChance
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      While I agree it should be 100% legal across the board someone made a good point. Once it’s rescheduled we could see it be classified at a medicine and ban recreational use then they’ll shoot the price through the roof re-opening the black markets. It’s worth treading carefully while we learn future plans that aren’t being spoken of loudly enough.

      • Almrond
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        58 months ago

        The thing is, if it gets rescheduled it will be entirely up to the states to handle growing the plant. I fully expect places like Wyoming to continue the draconian laws (like they just did with D8, it’s a felony after June 1st, farm act be damned) but most places will just regulate based on their current laws. What worries me is the ATF being assigned as the federal regulatory body, but that would only happen with it being a taxable, saleable, product. I don’t forsee big pharma being able to do much with rescheduling, it’s too easy to grow.

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          Holy hell, conservatives are such gigantic pieces of shit. Fuck red states, their beauty is absolutely destroyed by these anti-freedom cretins.

          • Almrond
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            28 months ago

            Yeah, red states are holding this nation back in a huge number of ways. Wyoming still publicly defends racism and hate speech under the guise of “free speech”. Check out the statements made by the University of Wyoming regarding a guy that comes onto campus specifically to harass and spew hate at transgender people this year. The college not only gives him his own table in the student Union, they encourage him to harass people. It sparked entire groups of people to literally scream racism and hate speech at people all over town because “muh freedoms”. It’s bad. Being a minority in this state is legit scary.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      Some critics argue the DEA shouldn’t change course on marijuana, saying rescheduling isn’t necessary and could lead to harmful side effects.

      I wonder who those fuckheads are

      https://duckduckgo.com/?&q=police+no+longer+allowed+to+use+smell+of+marijuana+for+probable+cause

      Search link not because I’m being a smartass, but because there are so many articles with the same context in different parts of the country.

      Womp womp. Sorry you’ll have to give up your second favorite pretext, cops.