As I’ve said many times, I really do not care if people smoke marijuana. I don’t, I do not find getting high to be fun. I also do not care for getting drunk. But, it really is no big deal, as long as there are restrictions like not smoking in public. I do not care to smell it
Trump expected to sign order reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday that would reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification, according to two sources familiar with the planning, in one of the most significant changes to drug policy in decades.
One source cautioned that while the plan is for the order to be signed Thursday, the timing could shift.
The order is expected to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Schedule I applies to substances with “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse” — the agency’s most stringent classification, which is also for heroin, LSD and ecstasy in addition to marijuana.
The DEA uses Schedule III for substances “with a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.” Other Schedule III drugs include Tylenol with codeine, testosterone, anabolic steroids and ketamine
Um, they’re all pretty controlled, and, didn’t Matthew Perry die from ketamine? He sure seemed hooked.
Moving the drug to a lower schedule would not change the fact that it remains illegal for recreational use at the federal level. But it could open the door to more research into marijuana and expanded medical uses. It might also lower the tax burden for state-licensed marijuana dispensaries in the dozens of states that have legalized the drug, since federal law bars businesses that sell Schedule I substances from taking some tax deductions.
The big question here is “does a president have the statuatory authority to change a drug’s schedule position?”
The Biden-era Department of Health and Human Services also recommended bumping marijuana down to Schedule III. The Justice Department, the DEA’s parent agency, proposed a rule to reschedule marijuana last year, but the process became mired in over a year of legal and administrative wrangling, leaving the drug in Schedule I status.
It really either needs to be done by a vote in Congress or through the rule making process from HHS or DEA. What will Trump’s EO state? Will it simply make marijuana a Schedule III, or start the review process? I guess we’ll see.
Oh, and will Democrats and the rest of the Never Trump now be against marijuana?
Elon Musk is described as a ketamine addict (Susie Wiles).
Little Donnie is doing all he can to pump up his approval. $1776 warrior bonuses to troops (trump dollars??)! Legalize pot! Cut medicine costs by 600% (NB – 100% cut means $0 cost)! Rinse and repeat, even shout, his lies – e.g., “took over the highest inflation and ended it!!” “More jobs!!”, “Ended 8 wars!”, “Cut spending!”, “Exporting the worst of the worst!!”, “Gas under $2 a gallon”… an onslaught of bullshit!
Little Donnie is always good TV, so the broadcast networks love him!! Butts in the seats, baby!! $$$
Relax. You lost.
Whining like an 8 year old child won’t help.
31% approval rating in the latest lol on the economy. That is below freezing!
Everybody is losing when Trump won.
Trump just announced reducing all numbers by 200%
Relax. You lost. Don’t be a Rimjob.
It’s as if the nation learned nothing from the tobacco lawsuits. The only difference is there is no legal “big weed” that can eventually be sued for the harm they do. Sick patients won’t tell their doctors about how much weed they smoke. So no one will make the connection. No one can sue their drug dealer.
Doesn’t matter. As soon as a sound medical use was found for cannibis, it should have been removed from Schedule I. The fact that it still hasn’t been removed from Schedule I should mean that everyone in the FDA who could have been remotely responsible for the inaction gets fired. Personally, I’ve never smoked it and don’t have any plans to, but I’ve seen firsthand, the benefits it can provide to cancer patients, so take your holier than thou attitude, and stuff it.
I do feel holier than thou. Consider me stuffed. Nothing helps cancer patients more than being medicated. Cannibis is just another way. One of many. Tobacco burned and inhaled delivered a minor narcotic effect at the expense of cancer. Weed, burned and inhaled…. Oh is just wonderful. Got it.
Personally, I don’t really care if people want to go through life slightly or highly medicated. Not my monkeys, not my circus. I merely point out the obvious policy conundrum behind making one drug “cancer causing” and socially unacceptable (but Okay if highly taxed), and another “wonderful” with zero long term studies of harm.
We simply don’t know the long term health effects of weed yet. For people who already have cancer, Go for it. You have nothing to lose. Make your last moments on Earth as mellow as you like. Just don’t pretend what you are doing is “healthy” instead of just pleasurable.
Of course, long term health studies are a problem because humans are not lab rats. They do not tell you about all the harmful substances they consume. Sometimes they even lie about it. So, if a person smokes a pack of cancer sticks a day AND had weed in the evenings, which caused his lung cancer? No one knows. And I don’t care. People should have the right to live their lives according to their own concepts of risk and safety, even if they suck at making such choices. As long as they are not in an insurance pool passing their risk onto other people.
And while we are at it, I would personally like to see other useful medications legalized for over the counter sales like anti-biotics, and pain killers like percocet and vicodan. Every first aid kit in America should have these instead of useless gauze pads and aspirin. If you have a tragic encounter with your table saw, waiting to see a doctor at an emergency room to relieve your pain is a crime against humanity. But because some people have the junkie gene, the rest of us have to suffer.