Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift - eviltoast
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    6 months ago

    Only on lemmy would Biden drastically reducing a very stupid and racist drug law that has persisted for decades be a bad thing.

    Changing the classification away from “its basically heroin” changes a lot actually. Research funding, federal therapeutic use, authorized law enforcement actions, banking laws, these are all able to be shifted and changed in the context of weed now.

    Its not the end of federal legalization attempts, it’s the start. It drastically normalizes something at a federal level that has already been legalized at a state level. That’s how you fully legalize it.

    It’s not some imagined set back because of weak “we did enough already” arguments that no one actually believes, especially with federal legalization at 70% popularity.

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      Only on lemmy would Biden drastically reduceding a very stupid and racist drug classification that has persisted for decades be a bad thing.

      Lemmy is so full of extremists it’s insane. Nothing but unwavering ideological commitment is accepted by any side. There is no positive news, only unethical compromise.

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      federal legalization at 70% popularity

      You just made clear that we don’t have a system that represents the people. How exactly does it become legal now with the argument “we just reclassified it”? When does that happen? 2, 5, 10 years from now?

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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        You just made clear that we don’t have a system that represents the people.

        Who the fuck thought we did?

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          Anyone who believes the statement “land of the free, home of the brave” or “for liberty and justice for all”. You’re blind to think that we don’t have so many in the US who believe we have a free country, and a free market.

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            6 months ago

            You’re just arguing whatever makes you angry like so many others on the Internet. 🥱

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              Good troll. I hope you like America after Trump wins because of stupid bullshit that our country keeps pulling. 🤡