Washington moving closer to legalized Marijuana

[insolent imp]

I don't know that it brings "benefits". It has plenty of drawbacks and side effects that aren't to be arbitrarily overlooked. That said, PRISON and even being cited for it seems to be just as detrimental if not worse than being forgetful, lethargic and hungry. There are probably many heath ramifications as well.

I still can not agree with laws that criminalize pot in any way shape or form though.

I've never heard of a stoned person slapping a woman around, getting into a brawl over a football game, or causing a serious accident behind the wheel while baked. Of all the mind altering chemicals I'd much rather have the freedom to do a few bong hits and watch Rick and Morty.

it works wonders for ptsd.

 

[percysunshine]

Finally they're coming around


CNN —
President Joe Biden is taking his first major steps toward decriminalizing marijuana, fulfilling a campaign pledge to erase prior federal possession convictions and beginning the process of potentially loosening federal classification of the drug.

Biden on Thursday will pardon all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, a move that senior administration officials said would affect thousands of Americans charged with that crime.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/marijuana-decriminalization-white-house-joe-biden/index.html

Only Congress can legalize marijuana. They have to change the FDA schedule.

Biden can not do it, the States can not do it...

Of course, Congress is full of nerd like cowards.

 

[insolent imp]

Only Congress can legalize marijuana. They have to change the FDA schedule.

Biden can not do it, the States can not do it...

the states can do it anytime they want and I believe an executive order could solve the schedule rating of marijuana.

 

[toobfreak]

a drug that's safer than that shit the doctors pump out.

In the right hands. For instance, I wouldn't want to be out on the road driving with you behind me at the wheel stoned.

 

[insolent imp]

In the right hands. For instance, I wouldn't want to be out on the road driving with you behind me at the wheel stoned.

it would be 10 mph to the pizza hut.

 

[toobfreak]

it would be 10 mph to the pizza hut.

Oh so you were the guy!

Ever have a pizza baked with a cannabis flower topping?

 

[Pete7469]

I think thats coming

I thought it would happen with Clinton.

What I don't get is that the left of the spectrum promotes the idea in hard core moonbat circles, as well as the right in libertarian circles. It's the authoritarian asswipes in between that must have something invested in continued prohibition that is either financially or politically beneficial to them. The media could easily sway public opinion far more than it already does so that the demand for complete legalization is thunderous. Instead they pander to people about it, but still promote bullshit about crime statistics as related to it.

Of course this is the same media that parrots inane drivel promoting "gun control" as if more laws will effect how lawless people behave, and suppresses stories about ordinary people defending themselves from lawless violent criminals which would actually cause such people to consider a different career path.

So go figure...


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[j-mac]

Colorado has done very well with marijuana tax money

And that’s what “spending” Biden is eyeballing.

 

[percysunshine]

the states can do it anytime they want and I believe an executive order could solve the schedule rating of marijuana.

I am willing to argue this point before the Supreme Court if you want to take the other side.

How does next Thursday at 11:45 sound?

 

[Pete7469]

the states can do it anytime they want and I believe an executive order could solve the schedule rating of marijuana.

I think you're correct on that.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

the states can do it anytime they want and I believe an executive order could solve the schedule rating of marijuana.

Wrong!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

it works wonders for ptsd.

That it does. My son uses gummies.

 

[insolent imp]

Wrong!

why?

 

[multivita-man]

I was under the impression the POTUS (especially a potato that has no business in the WH) couldn't pardon state misdemeanor crimes....

Regardless marijuana never should have been criminalized in the first place. It was stupid from the get go. Too bad the republicrats didn't use their opportunity to prove they're less authoritarian than the democrooks, but hopefully we will see the end of a 90 year old asinine law.

Republicans started the criminalization of Mary Jane. Shit, it was Tricky Dick who created DEA and established MJ as a Schedule I -- judges laughed at that shit even then.

 

[insolent imp]

Republicans started the criminalization of Mary Jane. Shit, it was Tricky Dick who created DEA and established MJ as a Schedule I -- judges laughed at that shit even then.

it goes way further back than that.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

why?

Most people have lost track of what an Executive Order is, and can do. It cannot change a law, although Democrats always try. It's like Obama's DACA rule change. The courts smacked him on that EO repeatedly. He knew it was illegal when he did it, and said so!

The schedule of drugs is contained in the Controlled Substances Act which would need to be changed by Congress. Biden can pardon anyone he wants, but he cannot change the law.

 

[multivita-man]

Most people have lost track of what an Executive Order is, and can do. It cannot change a law, although Democrats always try. It's like Obama's DACA rule change. The courts smacked him on that EO repeatedly. He knew it was illegal when he did it, and said so!

The schedule of drugs is contained in the Controlled Substances Act which would need to be changed by Congress. Biden can pardon anyone he wants, but he cannot change the law.

True. Very true.

 

[insolent imp]

Most people have lost track of what an Executive Order is, and can do. It cannot change a law, although Democrats always try. It's like Obama's DACA rule change. The courts smacked him on that EO repeatedly. He knew it was illegal when he did it, and said so!

The schedule of drugs is contained in the Controlled Substances Act which would need to be changed by Congress. Biden can pardon anyone he wants, but he cannot change the law.

hasn't executive orders changed law in the past?

 

[multivita-man]

it goes way further back than that.

You ain't kiddin. Ever since people figured out how to intoxicate themselves, peeps have been trying to regulate it -- thousands of years.

 

[multivita-man]

hasn't executive orders changed law in the past?

Admiral's right: hasn't changed the law, though it sometimes changes the force of the law.