The federal government is going to reclassify marijuana from a schedule Ito a scheduled III drug. The Associated Press reported:
The proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, would recognize the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs. However, it would not legalize marijuana outright for recreational use.
The agency’s move, confirmed to the AP on Tuesday by five people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive regulatory review, clears the last significant regulatory hurdle before the agency’s biggest policy change in more than 50 years can take effect.
Once OMB signs off, the DEA will take public comment on the plan to move marijuana from its current classification as a Schedule I drug, alongside heroin and LSD. It moves pot to Schedule III, alongside ketamine and some anabolic steroids, following a recommendation from the federal Health and Human Services Department. After the public comment period and a review by an administrative judge, the agency would eventually publish the final rule.Rest of article.
The banks should love this rule change.
51 comments:
What a joke. This stuff is dangerous and everyone is acting like it’s “medical” and can help with whatever is wrong with you.
This stuff is for losers.
Loser mentality and from government.
Hey, PawPaw at 6:19...There's a man out in your front yard from the government. He's a revenooer and says he's found your still.
I have often wondered why those that smoked the stinking weed would defend it, and be against cigarette smoking. It's not the same thing, I was told. A recent study disagrees.
It's an Epoch Times article, but the links are in it to the study.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/even-1-joint-per-week-enough-to-boost-heart-disease-risk-study-5601921?
The stinky weed is defined as a gateway drug. It's perfectly safe say the stoners. The link below says different.
https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2023/05/young-men-at-highest-risk-schizophrenia-linked-with-cannabis-use-disorder?utm_source=pocket_reader
Stoner Joe buying votes. Next he’ll do the same for crack in his continued enabling of his son.
Alcohol is for losers too.
Oregon, here we come!!!
worry about menthol cigs - then this .....
Since the weather has warmed I have been smelling the pungent aroma of marijuana wafting through the air like a sacrilegious incense mingling with the chlorine tang of the pool from next door. My disgusting neighbors cavort naked around the pool in their drug and alcohol induced debauchery playing the music of Satanic Witch Taylor Swift Marijuana is the the road to hell and they are taking the entire neighborhood with them at their pool parties at all hours. I moved to this gated community to get away from heathen behvaior.
@ 6:19
Totally agree
All to help Hunter, hell he will never face criminal charges so what the heck. Fentanyl is laced in most Mary Jane. What a joke Biden. He has made our country a laughing stock. He could barely stay awake at the Press dinner. Bye bye Biden. Enjoy it as your days are numbered!
For those of us 60 and up, MJ was common up until Reagan's war on drugs. Life was better back then.
6:19, lol. Dangerous. Haha
Weed is from the Earth. God put it there for you and for me!!
Fer out man
The pretense, at both the federal and state level, is just ridiculous. Everyone knows where this ends up. In the states that have recreational use, it all started with medical use. It's a mistake, and nothing good comes of it. I don't care how hard the potheads argue for it.
For certain problems, the use of marijuana will help and give relief. Old folks who hurt all the time could certainly use it for pain relief. Good to see this finally happening. Not sure how I feel about recreational use, but I just finished a shot of Ancient Age in a touch of sprite, so I hate to criticize the recreational use of drugs too much. Funny to me the people who drink a sixpack a day and criticize recreational Marijuana use.
The lotus fruits and flowers were the primary food of the island and were a narcotic, causing the inhabitants to sleep in peaceful apathy. After they ate the lotus, they would forget their home and loved ones and long only to stay with their fellow lotus-eaters.
The Feds want you to smoke pot so they can take all your liberties away and tax you to death and you won’t care. Weed is the new religion on the masses.
Alcohol is far more dangerous and addictive.
5 dispensaries around me, but I gotta go to the next county to get a bottle of wine.
Big Pharma will own it all soon enough.
Don't believe the mj cultivators who claim their product is anything more than a hippie high, more potent than ever before, sometimes with fentanyl cut into it. I have seen many use it, usually in combination with alcohol and other, harder drugs, now also cut with fentanyl.
The fact that a relatively mild version of weed grows naturally does not justify its use. Should one lick toad bellies or eat psilosybin mushrooms?
Under the Joe Xiden administration pot will be legal and ARs illegal.
well i’ve been to places where recreational weed is ok and have walked in their downtowns and neighborhoods (specifically denver and LA within the last 6 months). try doing that in jackson or memphis.
(took a gangster rap walking tour in compton..less dangerous than west jackson)
I think I'm done reading this blog. The average age here is 75, and the average IQ much much lower.
You are full of shit and bourbon to suggest that licensed cultivators cut fentanyl into today's medical cannabis.
Get up off the couch and quit watching NCIS New Orleans reruns. And get out of those Wal-Mart pajamas!
Milk is now considered a gateway beverage to beer since, with absolute certainty, 94.8 beer drinkers used to drink milk (and some still do).
I've smoked weed and tried just about everything that didn't involve needles. While alcohol was always my intoxicant of choice (mostly due to the legal implications) weed was a close second. Like any drug - prescription or street - it can be beneficial or harmful. It all depends on the individual. Like any product in demand - beneficial or harmful - making it illegal only creates a black market. Reading some of these comments, it's like many of you are completely oblivious to the human and financial costs that we have incurred due to alcohol prohibition and the war on drugs.
And 100% of deaths are caused by sunset or sunrise, because all deaths occur either after sunset or after sunrise.
Don't be fooled, or be a fool. Making pot legal hasn't eliminated the black market. The black market is stronger than ever in California.
Wonder if or how this will affect our car insurance rates? Some said in CO after legalizing g & wrecks began more & more due to mj usage premiums went up. One would think insurance companies would do the same. Remember after 9/11 all policies in life insurance added verbage about acts of terrorism…. Only to see rates go up
People, calm down. Changing the wacky tobaccy to Schedule III allows it to be legally prescribed, which under current federal law is illegal.
I think I'm done reading this blog. The average age here is 75, and the average IQ much much lower.
Sadly they all get together a few times a year at a place called THE POLLS !!
I love watching small government conservatives who want to shrink the government down to the size where it's just small enough to fit in someone's house.
You don't give a fuck what I drink... why do you give a fuck what I smoke?
Mind your business -- ask Uncle Sam to regulate everything or STFU. It's binary. You don't get to pick to ban something just because YOU don't like it. Either you want government in your shit or not.
Follow the money.
@10:39 - Following the money leads to why this was schedule 1 to begin with, to line the pockets of police by making a safe drug that is commonly used by a large percentage of adults into a felony. It’s good to see money not being a roadblock to sensible policy for once.
@10:35 Same in my area Pot smoking will not improve anything in our country
It's my understanding that marijuana can often be a gateway for opioids and cocaine. However, history shows that the criminal justice system does not prevent the sale/possession of the drug.
@11:56 -- Neither does booze or cigarettes... but those are legal, too. Motorcycles don't improve anything in our country... but they're fun to ride.
Since when does something have to "improve" our country to be legal? Individual freedom improves the country. Either be a conservative or don't be.
Serious question from a non-pot-smoker. When I was younger, you could smell pot at concerts, sporting events, etc. and it smelled like plants on fire. Why now does it smell like nasty skunk?
every Caribbean island I have visited, it is always the same, the local population is poor as shit and it smells like weed and no one wants to work. We live in the poorest state where no one wants to work and all I have to look forward to is going to the Mayflower and it smelling like weed in downtown.
@2:05 PM You are smelling the BO from the smokers.
Relax peepuls..."Some Said" wrecks increased in Colorado.
Some also said masturbation will make a boy go blind. That there is pure medical evidence!
Looking at Playboy pictures when you're 14 will most certainly lead to a life of crime and debauchery. Ask any Primitive Baptist Preacher.
This blog is blessed with more than a handful of those.
Biden vote pandering
I live the people that when someone states the dangers of marijuana, they IMMEDIATELY pivot to alcohol.
These are two separate discussions.
Nobody is trying to pass alcohol off as some “medical” solution.
But ever pothead talks like it will cure them if everything and they by growing their own hemp, they will suddenly be in the rope business.
What a bunch of weak people that want a prescription just to get high. You are being lied to and it will only increase mental illness in our society.
Weed is not some safe or softer drug that is all “hippies and good vibes”.
Stop making excuses for your lazy and pathetic weakness.
Some of you people need to smoke a doobie. Bigly.
One of the largest groups to benefit from the MM program is our veterans.
I have a cardboard box full of meds the VA sends me and MM does the job of all of them.
I'm down to 1 prescription med thanks to marijuana.
It gave me my life back.
Patrick McDowell case is a good reference to what happens to a Vet that began with MJ as a youth. Please watch the trial and then comment seriously if it changes your opinion. Just something to consider.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg&pp=ygUkbGVnZW5kIG9mIHRoZSB0aXRhbmljIGphaW1lIGJyb2NrZXR0
I am going out to buy a large bag of Fritos and some matches.
As a big fan of small government who does not smoke weed, I don't care what drug they make legal.
I don't need a law to tell me not to shoot heroin into my veins. That is a personal choice that I can make no matter how many stores offer a discounted crack cocaine subscription.
Maybe we need to stop saving people from themselves and thin the herd.
If Biden is “vote pandering” by taking an action 70% of Americans support, maybe more of our elected officials should start “vote pandering.”
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