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The Department of Health and Human Services is finally recommending that marijuana be down-listed to a Schedule III drug, making it legal nationwide. It’s about time they stopped the reefer madness crap targeting grandpa for toking. After all, he’s been wandering around most of his life with an illegal smile without causing any major crime sprees. It’s especially embarrassing that they treat cannabis users like ax murderers, while DHHS officials can’t even work from their San Francisco office, because the Nancy Pelosi Building is is infested by fentanyl hazed zombies.
Marijuana re-ranked properly
The federal government had a real hard time telling all the medical marijuana patients that there’s no accepted medical value for grass. They have been classifying it like heroin since the reefer madness scare of the 1920’s. Everyone knows that was only an excuse to roust just about anyone with long hair and colorful clothes. The smell of pot alone could get you dragged downtown and hassled all day.
Meanwhile, everyone knew the real score and as long as you stayed out of trouble and didn’t fire up a doobie where it would offend the public enough to get noticed, law and order turned a blind eye. The problem is, they’re now ignoring the heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and a whole host of designer drugs Grandpa knows better than to try, even after surviving the ’60s.
Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, a whole set of stories all by “herself,” issued “the recommendation in a letter to Drug Enforcement Agency administrator Anne Milgram.” Five decades ago, in 1971, marijuana was listed as a “Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act.” It was created that year specifically to target the hippies in San Francisco. While half the planet consumes cannabis daily, the feds decided it had “a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical value.” The “abuse” factor of happyweed is debatable. As with alcohol, those who imbibe “recommend” dosing responsibly.
???? @HHSgov has made a historic recommendation to move marijuana to Schedule III under federal law!
Last month, I pressed DEA Administrator Anne Milgram on the Biden Administration’s timeline on rescheduling marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III???? https://t.co/TttczZjYeW pic.twitter.com/RT6SwyOWS3
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) August 30, 2023
However, heating a couple big spoons up on the stove till they’re cherry red, to press a big bud of Maui Wowie between – while you stand over it with a bottomless soft drink cup to funnel the resulting cloud into your lungs all at once – can have a tendency to make you fall over. It’s best to let someone else handle the hot spoons just in case. If they do end up on the floor, they should be just fine when they wake up. Is that drug abuse? Some say yes, while others disagree. Driving afterward would be a crime but that’s a different law.
Under federal law, Merrick Garland can reschedule marijuana any time he wants to. That makes sense because he seems to really run the country anyway. Joe Biden refuses to touch the stuff but Hunter’s lawyer Kevin Morris has a stylish bong he’s been caught on camera toking. It looks like one from Fat Buddha Glass.
That could be why Joe “asked for a re-evaluation of pot’s status.” He got the ball rolling last October just ahead of the mid-terms. Joe can’t deny that “two-thirds” of America wants to see Mary Jane totally legal. He prefers “decriminalization,” as with shoplifting and stealing cars.
Widely legal under state law
With more relaxed officials willing to dispense marijuana to adults under controlled conditions, at least for it’s newly acknowledged medical benefits, cannabis has become legal in many states. Recreational use is likewise gaining acceptance. Especially when the states see how much money they can bring in by taxing everyone’s dope. That used to be 100% profit to the cartels.
Thanks to legalization at the state level, we finally know what it is we’re smoking. Every carefully regulated package comes with a breakdown of strain details with guaranteed analysis of THC and CBD content.
Sometimes, the label lists the terpene profile along with all the additives used in the grow process. Compare that with the baggie of unknown Mexican ditch weed you get from Fred down the street.
New: The Biden administration is directing the Drug Enforcement Agency to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, moving it out of the same category as heroin.
Biden has also pardoned all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession.
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— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 30, 2023
The one with stems, seeds, mold, bugs, rocks, and string mixed in with a dubious grade of marijuana. Maybe it smells like cat pee from being wrapped up wet and left at the bottom of a two-ton pile for a few months before heading to market. The crap-shoot days of you get what you get are over and consumers aren’t about to go back.
Despite the wide acceptance for decades, “possession of marijuana for any reason outside limited research has remained a federal crime, prompting some banks to refuse to service the quasi-legal industry.” That makes the dispensary a huge target because all the criminals know they’re forced to deal in cash.
The time has come to simply recognize the truth. Millions of Americans consume cannabis in all sorts of forms for all sorts of uses. Criminalizing it was useless and the time has come to crack down on the real threats to civilized society.
