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Holy shit I didn't know it was that many
And if you count the states that have it decriminalized and or offer prescriptions from Dr. Nick or Dr. Spaceman, then there aren’t very many holdouts left.
Biden should just run on abortions and weed next year. Make it federal if the democrats can take back enough of the house and hold the senate.
Dude promised to do it if elected in 2020…soooo.
Biden promised to get rid of student loans as well. He started the program right before the 2022 election, and it got ruled illegal right after it. Maybe he'll make weed legal by executive order in October of 2024, only for the courts to rule "wait, you don't have that power" in December of 2024.
Law should be what society wants the law to be. Law should not be what some elite minority ruling class wants the law to be.
Democracy is how we find out what society wants.
It's supposed to be, but the GOP has been undermining the shit out of it to try and keep the power they have left.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/promise/1529/decriminalize-marijuana/
Federal pardons have been issued for possession crimes, and removing it from being Schedule 1 is currently underway. It's the federal government, so nothing is fast and everything takes forever, but I don't think it's really accurate to say that he's done nothing.
Especially given that essentially zero people are now prosecuted federally for weed possession now, a bit of a wait for the bureaucratic gears to turn feels fine enough for me.
Yeah it helped about 6500 people, but the rest is taking way too long, even by government standards.
At this point I’m not holding my breath he ever gets it done, so I guess check back with me in 2024.
He can't. He can recommend to the CSA that it be descheduled from a schedule 1 controlled substance (and that recommendation carries a lot of weight), put in place agents who favor descheduling it, or order DEA, HHS, and FDA to consider administrative descheduling.
Vote out Republicans. That's the only way to make sure it becomes legal.
He can't and as another commenter pointed out his health panel submitted a research paper along with a recommendation to move cannabis to a schedule three drug.
He's already doing what you want it's just not loud about it so you don't know.
If you wanted to be fully legal you're going to need to start writing your congressional representatives because they're the ones who can do it
cries in Texan
Cries in Kansan too
At least most Kansasans live less than an hour away from Missouri where it is legal.
Thank you Dr Space Man!
I don’t know if people even think about voting in terms of campaign promises anymore. They never pull through. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me every fucking 2 years for my entire adult life, shame on me.
Just keep it honest: Not fascist vs fascist. Weed will stay illegal, climate will continue to spiral, wealth gap will continue to increase, healthcare will continue to be abusive, abortion will continue to rely on flimsy court decisions, etc. But at least we’ll keep having elections, so we’ve got that going for us.
With all due respect, he did everything in his power and spent a lot of political capital executing on the topics in question.
Biden shocked me on what he did for pot, and what he tried to do for student loans. I thought it was hot air.
The question is whether Biden is a fascist because the Far Right sued him and won over student loans, or because the DEA continues to laugh at him when he asks them to change Weed's classification (because he cannot, he can only stop prosecutions and free prisoners, which he has done)
No he didnt
No he didnt what?
Didn't blanket-pardon people in prison for possession? Didn't order the stop of federal possession arrests? Didn't formally request the DEA change the ranking for Marijuanna?
Didn't shock me?
What didn't he do?
This is what happens when the system boils down to two parties. Neither party has a reason to fulfill any promises because what's the voter going to do, vote for the other party that's even less aligned with their political views? GOP is definitely putting that to the test to see how extremist they can get while still having some modicum of power, but what if everyone does end up voting democrat? Well then there's no reason to democrats to promise anything because it's not like people are going to vote for anyone else. The entire system is rotten.
It's not enough. And it should be federally legal.
Just a reminder as people mostly know but it's worth repeating: Marijuana is a schedule 1 substance in the same category as heroin, fucking heroin, which is absolutely fucking asinine. Psilocybin is up there too and also just as retarded.
This all being said at least we're making some slow progress.
Dude, you’re not wrong, but take the win.
Almost half
Seems like it is more than time to legalize it nationally