Would it be the best news we’ve ever gotten if it threatens to take away home grows?
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Changing the scheduling from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3? I don’t see that it would affect homegrowing, in that it’s illegal now under federal law and would remain illegal.
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I’m thinking with it being in the same class as prescription drugs, it would be considered a pharmaceutical, and will therefore be illegal to grow
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The CSA’s control would keep much of marijuana conduct federally illegal. State marijuana programs, both medical and recreational, would stay federally banned, leading to potential arrests. Noncitizens might face deportation for marijuana involvement. Federal arrests and prosecutions would continue, old arrests wouldn’t be expunged, and many would remain imprisoned for marijuana offenses. This would also maintain the denial of federal benefits to those with prior marijuana convictions and impede fair competition between small, minority-owned businesses and larger corporations in the marijuana industry.
"We urge President Biden to make good on his promise to end arrests for marijuana and fully remove marijuana from the CSA. This is the only way to ensure equity, social justice, and economic opportunities in the cannabis industry,"
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That’s going to require a Congress willing to do so as he cannot remove it completely due to federal laws on the books.Current political climate means he must have a Congress controlled in both Houses by his own party or nothing will happen. This is the best that can be done without an act of Congress.
Oh, and don’t forget, it requires a super majority of 60 votes in the Senate to get a cloture vote and move the bill to the floor of the Senate.
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And that’s if he even wanted to in the first place, which he has been very clear for a long time that he doesn’t.
Plus Bitch McConnell has been very effective at blocking anything that even smells like weed.
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And again, the question is why? I think we all come back to it being the money, and mostly from the paid prison industry. There is no easier prisoners to deal with than those who were convicted of cannabis “crimes”.
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Or they would at least stop selling it to kids. Aspartame is worse, though. It’s toxic waste, essentially. It’s in everything, and it’s horribly toxic, and probably behind the spike in autism cases. When ingested, it converts into formaldehyde and formic acid (fire ant venom) and builds up in amniotic fluid.
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The new McConnell clone they are testing out may be the perfect opportunity, just pass the motion in Congress while he is incurring a system update.
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McConnell is absolute garbage. He and most of his contemporaries need to hurry the hell up and die.
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It will allow medical, which would be a marked improvement for illegal states.
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Funniest part of that article is that the author feels like he has to explain what Woodstock was.
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I get that, but I feel it will make it harder for those that prefer to grow their own medicine
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Don’t know about I have grown my own medicine for 40+ years and never had a problem of course I rarely let anyone know even my realatives
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An international team of researchers in Germany figured out how CBD helps the body heal due to its robust anti-inflammatory effects.
We found that all eight cannabinoids we studied had anti-inflammatory effects…CBD thus induces a switch in the affected cells, so to speak, which steers the inflammatory process from the promoting to the inhibiting side
Interestingly, they were able to isolate these effects in mice for each cannabinoid by itself. I wonder if there’s more benefit if you have greater variety of cannabinoids? High CBD strains that still have some THC can be very enjoyable smoke and, while they don’t get me blasted, just make me feel good every time.
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I wonder if this will happen in every state?
If you ignore federal law they cut off your cash supply to force compliance.
federal funds should not be awarded to jurisdictions that willfully ignore federal law,” he said in a press release. “During a time when our communities are seeing unprecedented crime, drug addiction, and mental illness, the Stop Pot Act will help prevent even greater access to drugs and ease the strain placed on our local law enforcement and mental health professionals who are already stretched thin.”
If it becomes law, however, Edwards’s bill, which is cosponsored by Rep. Gregory Murphy (R-NC), would target more than just Indigenous people in his home state. It would also mean a financial hit to states in which nearly half of all Americans live, not to mention tribes in other states that have already launched marijuana-related ventures.
This is how they refer to cannabis…WTF???
“It is a highly engineered drug
It is a plant how is it highly engineered?
They just keep on lying to us…
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Plus… “kid friendly packaging”? I can barely open most edibles packaging
This fear mongering is like something out of a long dead era
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Lacing up for a victory lap over rescheduling is premature and short-sighted while federal cannabis prohibition is still alive and well.
Further, while rescheduling on its own would not immediately “capsize existing state markets and give way to further big business control of the industry,” there is a real and significant risk that the collective myopia and excessive self-congratulation among rescheduling advocates will blind the rest of the industry from recognizing that FDA can and will exercise its existing authority over “drugs,” “dietary supplements” and “food” (and, in fact, has already done so with respect to hemp products) unless we demand a new approach.
Without this recognition and a concerted effort to press this demand concurrently with the demand to reschedule, the biggest players in the industry could cannibalize decades of effort to build viable state cannabis markets (and decriminalize cannabis federally) in order to secure immediate tax relief and boost profits through rescheduling. In their rush to declare victory before fully assessing and addressing all downstream legal effects of rescheduling, large multi-state cannabis operators could risk permanently enshrining an ill-suited federal regulatory framework under the FDCA.
This current FDCA framework would not only keep smaller existing state-licensed cannabis companies from growing through interstate commerce after descheduling, but would also allow FDA to intervene within state markets for medical and adult-use cannabis products before descheduling (e.g., on the basis of interstate diversion of such products, or that the non-cannabis ingredients, components or other production inputs previously travelled in interstate commerce). Additionally, the high costs of compliance within this framework would likely ensure that only the most well-capitalized players could afford to compete.
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I mean, it’s all federally illegal now. I don’t think rescheduling it will change anything in that regard (it wont be more illegal). While they’re applying the “Cole Memo” during the current administration, it could change… but I will note that while there was noise during the prior administration about tossing the Cole Memo, states with legal medical and rec markets continued on, without widespread busts.
No doubt federal legalization would have major benefits (TBH I’m not sure sure on the immigration part, immigration law is weird).
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