Not a druggie, but I say legalize the doobage on a national level.
yeah never happen. too much money in law enforcement
don’t worry there’s all the fentanyl. which is a dangerous problem.
yeah but the roi just isnt as easy to get
Sigh… leave it to Lemmy to turn a discussion about cannabis into complaining about Gaza again like in almost every other thread. Everyone knows about the genocide and how awful it is, but none of us can do anything about it right now and it’s not relevant to the topic at hand. Can we please have a discussion about other things without it just devolving into fighting over it?
Anyway, as a Canadian, our country hasn’t fallen into mass chaos and drug abuse despite cannabis being legalized. I’m sure the federal government loves the extra tax dollars, and we don’t need to buy from shady black market dealers so it’s usually safer. I hope America can learn from what we’re doing up north, cannabis shouldn’t be illegal.
If this were last year I totally would’ve used you as an example/reference in my ENC1101 essay about weed legalization 🥲 that’s exactly the same points I wrote about
pssst…it’s mostly Russians trying to manufacture an October surprise for Trump.
its weird how one day all the threads were about “Biden bad, Harris bad by-proxy, vote for anyone but Harris.”
who are the freaks that are still against legalization?? after my state legalized it was only a matter of months before even the anti drug boomers I know to be buying gummies for their arthritis
Old conservatives mostly. Still favored by a majority of both parties.
Pfft, for real, all my elderly relatives have some sort of cannabis rubbing cream or an extract for sleeping.
My in laws used to get so mad at my wife for smoking pot. Recently they weren’t even a little mad to hear that I’d used it on a road trip as a replacement for Dramamine. They also have chilled the fuck out about other drugs since I described how lsd has improved my mental health.
Pot is just awesome. Best analgesic and antiemetic I can get otc, most fun one too
for a weed sub this comment section is wild
I think a lot of lemmings just read /c/all since most subs don’t have a ton of content.
Is this her plan to win back the progressives who were put off by that whole like, genocide thing?
Yeah, it’s a shame she couldn’t lie and say she’d fix the issue in 24 hr’s like trump. The issue isn’t THAT complex, ya knowwwww?
But she could just say ‘stop it, you guys!’ and they’d say ‘okay, sorry’. It’s not like ending a holy war that’s been going on for centuries is that hard.
The president has authority to approve, deny, or restrict international arms sales:
She literally could say “stop it, you guys!” and they’d run out of bullets and bombs.
And that would cause innumerable other problems. This issue is not that simple. If it was, it would have been solved decades ago.
Look, I hate this holy war. I’m angry beyond words we’re still watching people die in that region. I’ve been alive a long time, and this stupid fucking war has been killing civilians – fucking innocent children – in waves the entire time I’ve been alive. But it really isn’t as simple as just ‘defund them’.
you sure showed me, now that you said that thing about trump (for some reason) im convinced this isnt a pittance thrown in to distract from her supporting the genocide (you know, the genocide? with the ethnic cleansing and the 80 year retributive war and all) as president, or what she plans to like, do about that whole like, sitch. “What’s that? You’re calling who? Ceasefire? Sorry I can’t hear you over all the sharply-pointed nothing that’s been doing. Ask me later when I’ve finished genociding all these people I’m trying to ethnic cleanse from their land im apartheiding.”
lets just get high about it, all that nakba stuff is really way too complex to understand anyway
miss me with the reply if its gonna be about trump fr fr
Israel sure respected the last ceasefire agreement.
israel “respecting” the terms of a ceasefire (to which it was effectively indifferent) that in no way addressed the fundamental grievances of the palestenians: blockades, apartheid, land encroachment, property confiscation, eviction and demolition, restriction of food and other forms of aid, human rights violations, and violations of international law (collectively constituting a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing and annexation) doesnt constitute the benevolent nonviolent “respect” for peace you seem to be suggesting. nor does this campaign continuing during what some are pleased to call “ceasefire” suggest an interest in relieving those very real grievances, incompatible with a viable or, in evidence, peaceful palestinian society.
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Did she do that?
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I mean, what exactly do you want her to do? She doesn’t have the power to actually do that yet.
This is only a slight upgrade from the first two months of her candidacy, when she was just literally ignoring all the questions about Biden’s record, not putting a platform on her website, and repeating two memes over and over again.
Her boss does. What is he waiting for?
Good question. Good thing I’m not voting for him this year.
That seems like identity politics. Her party is in power to make change now, yet they choose not to. I could spell it out, but Tucker Carlson would say it’s stickier to let them misunderstand it through their own bias.
Another election cycle, another useless pledge to legalize marijuana as a push to pander votes. She said this prior to running as Biden’s VP, then did nothing with her time in office.
Similarly, I recall similar propaganda from Trump in 2016 and 2020. Nothing came of that, either.
And yes, it’s tiring being this hopeful and this cynical at the same time.
Did nothing besides kick off the process intentionally designed to take more than 4 years so that two consecutive administrations would have to keep it going…
They already started to get it rescheduled. https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-biden-dea-criminal-justice-pot-f833a8dae6ceb31a8658a5d65832a3b8
Rescheduled from 1 -> 3. Not sure I understand the significance of this change other than to look like doing something without legalizing it.
How did Biden kick off the process that was designed to take more than 4 years? I actually didn’t know anything other than the push to reschedule.
Schedule 1 drugs are those deemed to have no medical use and have an extremely high likelihood for abuse. They are the first target for the DEA and have no legal use status (cannabis currently gets around this due to administration level memos to not interfere with state law, but that’s all)
Schedule 3 are those with accepted medical usage and a low or moderate likelihood for abuse. They need to be prescribed and need a prescription no older than 6 months to fill.
Essentially, if cannabis is moved to schedule 3, it becomes medically legal in all 50 states that don’t have specific laws outlawing its use (I don’t know if any of those exist). It’s a major step towards legalization and the biggest you can make without a law.
The big win from schedule 3 is ability for American researchers to study it legally and easily, on-shore. Obviously it doesn’t belong in the list with those other schedule 3s (ketamine and suboxone), but it is gonna be baby steps towards legalization so long as the powerful alcohol and private prison lobbies exist.
My fiancé studies cannabis in Canada, and making it legal didn’t really make it easier to study. Hopefully FDA makes it less of a nightmare than health canada did.
Even when it was illegal here, it was significantly less illegal than in the states; scientific and medical studies would have already been allowed.
It brings the conversation up to the national spotlight, and while it’s a half measure, it’s forward progress, which itself creates inertia that can bring about real change.
That’s what Biden’s current plan is.
It doesn’t go far enough for me, but it sets up his successor to take it even further. Which it sounds like is what she’s planning to do.
Well, the VP doesn’t have a lot of leeway in the whole passing laws department, so that’s probably why she didn’t just magically make that happen.
This is a bit more than trump. He would only drop vague comments during speeches. This is an official statement that follows bidens previous reschedule activity. So things are being done but intentionally slowly and not definitively. They can only drive it so slowly though so will happen if not derailed by someone else.
Do they no longer make kids watch Schoolhouse Rock?
I’m just a bill. Yes, I’m only a bill. And I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill. Well, it’s a long, long journey To the capital city. It’s a long, long wait While I’m sitting in committee, But I know I’ll be a law some day At least I hope and pray that I will But today I am still just a bill.
Hopefully the Republicans steal this idea
Hopefully the Republicans lose in a massive fucking landslide so their shitty beliefs and ideals that are used like hammers to hurt my fellow Americans and continue to send us into tailspins every fucking time they get involved or get power, along with the corrupt and illegitimate SCOTUS, can all eat a bag of dicks and then do us all a favor and die in a (figurative) fire together.
Maybe whatever party comes next out of their ashes will have some humanity and an IQ above room temperature for their representatives.
