WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.
The order signed by Todd Blanche does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under federal law. But it does change the way it’s regulated, shifting licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I — reserved for drugs without medical use and with high potential for abuse — to the less strictly regulated Schedule III. It also gives licensed medical marijuana operators a major tax break and eases some barriers to researching cannabis.
I don’t get why this isn’t on the front page of Lemmy. 25% of the workforce now qualifies for about 30% of the nation’s best jobs. It is now inevitable that marijuana users will be afforded the same protections as amphetamine, xanex, and opioid users.
Trump just did more for me than a decade worth of Democrats; one of the reasons I voted for them was because they were the “pro-legalisation party.”. If Republicans didn’t do this, the Democrats would have milked the issue indefinitely. Between this and the overtime tax breaks, I’m feeling more inclined to change my political affiliations.
Partisans of either color will never acknowledge forward movement when it originates from the other side. Their public hatred of each other is part of the pageant that passes for a political system in our country.
But considering how many millions of lives have been sold to the private prison system over a harmless plant, I’m inclined to agree with you in that this is a massively positive development and I’m glad it happened, even if I’m certain it only happened because of Donald’s dementia and need for a distraction.