Democratic senators call on DEA to deschedule marijuana entirely
thehill.com
A group of Democratic senators called on the Biden administration Tuesday to completely deschedule marijuana, arguing the White House’s recommendations to the Drug Enforcement Administration …
    • Anomaline@lemmy.world
      72·
      7 months ago

      more concerned with systemic inequality and foreign genocide

      …what in this prevents them from doing their job and actually forwarding a pretty objectively good bill?

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Descheduling is respecting the states’ choices. Legalization at the national level doesn’t automatically make it legal in states.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      7 months ago

      or respecting state’s choice

      I’d love to hear the logic of how federal descheduling takes away a states choice…

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          62·
          7 months ago

          If a state has zero laws about cannabis federal schedule makes it illegal

          And many of the states that haven’t legalized use the federal schedule as rational.to not legalize.

          If they want them illegal, they can pass a law making them illegal. That’s how it’s supposed to be work.

          Not states having to legalize something on a state level because the federal government claims it’s one of the most dangerous drugs in the country, but won’t actually enforce people flagrantly breaking the law…

          Have you ever tried reading anything about this? Like, ever?