Where is this going?
Toward someone pointing out that the US government being the largest arms exporter and the US being the largest exporter of arms are two different things?
Where is Federal legalization going? Nowhere fast.
I doubt the worlds largest arms manufacturers have our best interests in mind when it comes to cannabis legalization.
Or, maybe that there are too many governing bodies already and too much overlap is a bad thing.
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Keep this on the topic. Making a weak connection to the arms trade is not that.
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Not arguing with you, but I didn’t bring it up, there are multiple posts about US involvement in the international arms trade.
I did it but not to specifically target the arms trade.
It’s less about arms and more about being beholden to foreign interests I’d think. Maybe it’s a stretch but if china is anti weed and the states is pro weed that might have security council repercussions.
Maybe not just thinking out loud.
Dumb question but is that bill the senate took up dead in the water due to the Speaker issue?
ETA: Looks like they might vote on Jim Jordan soon… not sure if he’d be good or bad in that regard (I kinda presume bad but you never know).
If you have it, bring in some reliable citations illustrating the connection. These threads will attract non-topical politics and conspiracy theories otherwise.
Thanks. Is why I am asking.
Unfortunately, Cannabis is one of those wedge issues in the US.
If they start fighting over market share anything is possible:
Skimmed but I don’t see anything in that article pointing out cannabis and federal legalization. Kinda doubtful but you may be able to dig-up something in the UN reclassification voting and process that makes for a strong connection.
Agreed about digging in just speculating about the interconnectedness of the world order and possible effect.
But you’re right, I doubt I’d find a specific article on the subject.
Well said and very true! 
It was used also as a medicine as well as for many other important things.
A new paper in the European Journal for Chemistry traces the history of cannabis through “thousands of years of contact with mankind,” noting the plant’s legacy as a source of fiber, nutrition, medicine, spirituality and pleasure.
At the same time, it notes that cannabis “is perhaps one of the greatest controversies in contemporary humanity” and a key driver of the modern war on drugs.
The cannabis plant appears to have first been used for its fiber, as a material for ropes and other manufactured goods, the authors wrote. Use of hemp fiber dates back to approximately 10,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia and to roughly 6,000 and 5,000 years ago in China and Kazakhstan, respectively.
Ancient peoples considered cannabis one of the five main grains, along with rice, soy, barley and millet, the paper continues. And once stalks were processed into hemp fibers, they became durable materials for ropes, sails and boat rigging, clothing, paper, animal husbandry and more.
“Used as a stunner to facilitate the capture of fish,” it says, “Cannabis is possibly the first plant to be cultivated for non-food purposes.”
Consuming cannabis for its physiological effects, meanwhile, dates back to about 3,000 years ago, the study says:
“It is understood that marijuana is as significant and respected for these people as communion wine or sacred host is for Christians,” authors wrote. “For its other facets, ayurvedic medicine used Cannabis practically as a panacea: as an analgesic, anti-spasmodic, anticonvulsant, anti-inflammatory, aphrodisiac and anaphrodisiac, appetite stimulant, treatment of female tract diseases, abortifacient, inductor of childbirth, among several other applications.”
The paper’s findings challenge fundamental assertions by leading prohibitionists, such as Kevin Sabet of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), that outlawing cannabis while permitting alcohol is justified because alcohol has a longer history of use.
As the new paper explains, “Semitic people also knew about the psychoactive properties of Cannabis centuries before the Christian era,” using the plant formulations ranging “from ointments to external injuries to oral preparations for various ailments and ‘sicknesses of the spirit.'”
The point of this post was to point out that cannabis has been used to heal or help people dating back to before recorded history.
Anyone who looks for those facts can see it is self-evident.
Why do we tolerate lies saying cannabis has no medical use to this day?
Saying cannabis has no medical use is simply a bold face lie.
I suggest we stop accepting this lie as truth.
From ancient Asian relics to contemporaneity: A review of historical and chemical aspects of Cannabis
- September 2023
2442-20377-1-PB.pdf (1.2 MB)
History of cannabis as a medicine: a review.
zuardi2006.pdf (1.0 MB)
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The symbiotic relationship between humans and cannabis is undeniable and sacred. I for one believe that we have impacted each other’s evolutionary paths along the way. Free the weed!
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A pox on the UN. Those idiots couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel, and anyone with even half a brain knows it. The (predictable) opposition to legalization is purely perfunctory; those making noise about it know damn well they can’t stop it.
One other thing: Schedule 3 could likely mean it will be permitted for religious purposes. I would love to see the look on some pearl-clutching prohibitionist’s face when they find out that freedom of religion cuts both ways.
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Total legalization Federal and State you do know they passed the SAFE Act which makes it legal for dispenery’s to use banks SO the Federal Gov has to make it legal The flood gate is open - mow for the states were pot is not legal once the Fed does their think this will make many states consider legalization Believe ILL HAS MADE OVER
MILLION DOLARS SO FAR IN 2024 THIS would be the motivational reason illegal state to become legal IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY
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This has not passed yet
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maybe at end of year
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By 2025, many of our current struggles will be behind us. Again, legalization is a process. Desensitization is part of that process. At least now (unlike times past), there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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Nobody thinks Sch. 6 is a better idea than 3? 
By accepting Sch. 3 we are telling those less informed that cannabis is as dangerous as Xanax ect.
I have heard people in the churches are now becoming more accepting of how cannabis can help people.
Why not tell them the truth instead of feeding them another lie?
It has taken decades to get the reefer madness stereotype out of their heads how long will it take to convince them that cannabis is not as dangerous as Xanax ect.?
Is it not time to end all of the old lies we were told concerning cannabis and its dangers?
We need to stop accepting lies as truth, and we certainly need to stop spreading those lies.
Hasn’t it all gone on for too long?
Some folks still believe these lies, it is time they saw the light.
Stop accepting lies as truth.
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