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DEA Will Move to Reclassify Marijuana in a Historic Shift
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned ...
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More: The DEA's 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 over 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 the agency would publish the final rule.
#1 | Posted by qcp at 2024-04-30 01:51 PM | Reply
Will this also stop the mandatory THC testing for non-dangerous positions in Right To Work states?
CBD is %100 medicinal not psycho-active at all, it's ridiculous for people to lose their jobs for using it.
#2 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2024-04-30 03:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Making marijuana a schedule 1 drug was a dishonest way for the government to arrest black people and anti war protesters, aka hippies.
#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-04-30 03:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Of course, a part of the original rational for criminalizing marijuana was greed, pure and simple.
You see the Navy was buying lines (i.e. ropes) for their ships made from hemp, like they had done for nearly two hundred years, but DuPont wanted to sell them lines made from a more modern material, like Nylon. However, the Navy wasn't interested, perhaps out of tradition as much as anything, but they were holding firm. Then about that same time someone got the bright idea to make the production and use of marijuana a federal crime, and with a bit of lobbying help by DuPont, they expanded this to include hemp production, a genetically related plant that contained very little THC, but since it was biologically related, that was good enough (BTW, despite the low levels of THC, this is still where the expression to 'smoke a rope' came from). Anyway, once the production of hemp was made illegal, along with marijuana itself, the Navy had no choice but to seek an alternative for hemp lines and there was DuPont, waiting with their coils of Nylon rope, just ready to do business.
OCU
#4 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-04-30 04:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
What this country needs are more psychotics.
#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-04-30 07:50 PM | Reply
Spark it up, Dude!
#6 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-04-30 08:14 PM | Reply
An attempt to distract younger voters from the administration's crap policy on Israel. "We gave you some college debt relief and easier weed. What more do you want?".
#7 | Posted by morris at 2024-04-30 10:37 PM | Reply
As far as drugs go, hard drugs include opioids, cocaine, and alcohol, which are all not schedule 1 (except heroin, which is effectively not much different from other legal opioids).
Marijuana and LSD are not hard drugs, but are currently classified as schedule 1 narcotics.
Of course the anti-government regulation republicans all seem to love regulation in the non-pharmaceutical drug department.
#8 | Posted by bus_driver at 2024-05-01 10:01 AM | Reply
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