DEA to reclass marijuana to Schedule III

• "Americans will always do the right thing - after exhausting all other options" - Winston Churchill

Well, just look at lemmy users around anything Biden related. No matter what, you'll get people only talking about Gaza, and disregard all of the other good his administration has done for the 3.5 years they have been working.

This is why politicians wait for the popular, easy wins until its campaigning time. People have a short memory, and it's always whatever the last big news story is that drives voters.

A prison sentence is a slave sentence, can't give up that juicy juicy slave labor so easily.

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Unfortunately Oregon just proved decriminalization needs a functioning healthcare system to support it.

I don't know about weed for that purpose... sometimes makes people more anxious. It'd be better if they just stopped forcing drugs on people period without the oversight of an actual doctor.

“STOP RESISTING! STOP RESISTING OR I WILL MAKE YOU HIT THIS BLUNT”

I hope not. It'd take 2 hours and would just make me weird and nervous.

You know he’s gonna, right after he wrings out and drinks his nightly baby.

Under Nixon, yes THAT Nixon, Congress wanted to pass UBI, but Democrats voted it down thinking it didn't offer enough cash...

Even though common sense would tell you that establishing a UBI and raising it would be easier than getting a good paying UBI out of the gate

Yeah celebrate your wins or you may find yourself getting fewer

What you are suggesting is a legislative action. The nation needs to provide enough legislative power to happen.

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"We knew we couldn't arrest people for being pro-civil rights or against the war, but by associating crack with black people and marijuana with hippies, we could disrupt their movements. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did!" - Paraphrasing of the Nixon Administration recounting the "Good ol' days"

So that way disabled people know who’s boss

Like seriously as someone unable to function without prescription stimulants that’s how it’s always felt

The Enforcement part

You think doctors are going to be arresting addicts on the street? Then they are just cops

I think currently they're not. They're registered to their state as they're still technically illegal at the federal level. The DEA has taken kind of a don't ask don't tell approach to marijuana and is currently relying on a patchwork of state regulations to manage it because for a variety of (terrible) reasons they haven't taken the sane step of reclassifying it. It honestly shouldn't be a scheduled drug or at worst a schedule 4. Moving it from schedule 1 to 3 is better than nothing, but it's still a chicken shit maneuver.

They are registered to the various states programs, but I can’t imagine there is a way to register with the DEA to sell a Schedule 1 drug for recreational use.

As someone unfamiliar with the law my guess would be that the DEA doesn't have mechanisms in place to register distributors of schedule 1 substances, since it doesn't recognize them as having any legitimate use.

Nah. As a schedule I, it's in the same category as things like meth. Tito your corner drug dealer ain't telling the feds where he's selling, right?

It also means regular pharmacies can sell it, and via normal banking channels.

From a medical marijuana perspective it wouldn't change much for states where it is still illegal. It will make things easier for people who are prescribed it in states where it is legal, and hopefully for places that produce or sell marijuana that are currently locked out of banking and payment systems. This would also allow Medicare to at least consider covering it in those states, but they wouldn't necessarily have to. Medicare coverage decisions are made by the center for Medicare and Medicaid services, we'll have to see after this change goes through what they determine. They do also already cover FDA approved medications based on cannibinoid ingredients like marinol or epidiolex which are pharmaceutical preparations of delta 9 thc and cannibidiol respectively (these are already available in every state since they are fda approved). Private insurance also will make their own determinations about whether they will cover it or not, but with this change there is a chance they could, whereas before there was no possible way. Medicaid coverage is mostly determined by each individual state.

The only way this would over ride state law and allow medical marijuana into a state that doesn't have legal marijuana would be if somehow the marijuana plant itself got an FDA approval, but that is very unlikely for a lot of reasons, foremost that the marijuana plant has a large mix of many different drugs with many differences in amounts and ratios of those drugs from strain to strain, plant to plant, different parts of the plant, or even the same plant at different times in its life. It's not like, heroin, or fentanyl, or cocaine which are specific chemicals. You could never really say "marijuana plants in general" have a specific indication for a specific disease, it would need to be much more specific in terms of what is actually being given, and only that would have the evidence and therefore the FDA approval. Like take epidiolex/cannibidiol for instance, a single chemical, 25 mg/kg/day was found effective as an add on therapy to another primary therapy for reduction in seizure frequency in children with Lennox gestaut syndrome and dravet syndrome. That's the specific indication and dosage that the FDA agrees is effective based on the evidence. Lots of other reasons too you'd never see an FDA approval for "all marijuana plants in general," but the unpredictable mix of tons of different drugs across many many strains of marijuana plants and variability between the plants itself is enough to make this a practical impossibility. It's definitely contributed a few medications that have roles in certain diseases though, like many other plants before it.

In short, you'll still need to convince individual states to legalize it or make medical marijuana laws if you want an actual marijuana plant or plant preparation prescribed to you. Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance coverage could all be different (and even different by insurance company), but there's at least a chance it could give coverage now, whereas it was impossible before. This also makes marijuana research easier and helps reduce any federal criminal penalties.

Like skin color?

Probably nothing immediately. The biggest advantages of rescheduling are in regard to federal sentencing guidelines and, imo more importantly, federal funding for research. Schedule 1 drugs (which MJ is currently) are defined as having no medical value, so research funding is practically impossible.

Why?

Jimmy eats AU sage... Mmmm golden sage

And move the goalposts.

Indeed

Not sure if anyone claimed it was going to solve the world's problems by reclassifying this in the US, but you are correct.

Like what are you trying to achieve with this comment? Everyone knows it should be descheduled entirely, but are acknowledging progress.

Your comment just reeks of negativity in an already bleak situation.

Edit acknowledging progress is not simping.

Schedule 3 is like Tylenol with codine. They decided it was like Tylenol.

But yes, I'm happy some bureaucrat is there defining safety standards. Sure they get some things wrong. But also, there's no sawdust or chalk in bread anymore.

Yeah fuck it, progress is overrated, let's give up instead

imagine things getting better for people. what a bunch of bootlickers.