News @lemmy.world jeffw @lemmy.world 2d ago

Trump plans to revoke many Biden policies. Where does that leave marijuana?

www.npr.org /2024/11/11/nx-s1-5184119/trump-biden-marijuana-legalization

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You can forget about legal weed for the next 50 years :/
- It's already illegal federally. It can't get more illegal.
  
  Oh, but it can.
  
  Right now the DEA is not going after state marijuana because of a memo issued during the Obama administration. That can be revoked at any time.
  
  Well, yes, but you see we were hoping it would go the other direction. That's the general vibe of the room at the moment.
It will depend entirely on whether he thinks weed being criminalized will put more people who oppose him in prison than he will lose in support from people who smoke weed that support him. Just like Nixon.

That’s my guess anyway.
- You forgot option C) which is part of Fascism 101: selectively enforce the law to prosecute your political opponents, target minorities, and just have something to hang on people in general just in case.
  
  "Coincidentally" that's how the War on Drugs™ always worked in the US.
- Does he need supporters anymore? He will have all three branches of government working for him.
  
  If you're going to start ignoring laws and stuff, that's when you need support the most.
he has been against it, then most recently for legalization.. he was most likely lying through his leaky diaper then, so i suspect he's gonna flip back no legalization, no reclassification, aggressive targeted enforcement, and trying to screw up states' own legalization efforts.

his accomplices have been working on stopping the reclassification already.
Cannabis is still Schedule I and Trump can't un-pardon people.
Elon smoked weed on the Joe Rogan show. It’ll stay legal.
- Elon is rich.
  
  This is America.
  
  Your prediction is not a good one based on those two facts.
  
  Right. Elon already breaks drug laws by consuming enough ketamine every week to tranquilize a horse.
  
  Joe Rogan and other celebs are making money on weed like sponsorships and branding. It’ll stay legal.
- Rules for thee but not for me
Democrats want it and it might help people that he doesnt know if legalised, so he'll be against it.
You mean the plans to put it on the same classification level as ~~heroin~~ ketamine and lysergic acid*? A change Biden and the Dem establishment had 4 years to make?
- You mean the plans to put it on the same classification level as heroin? A change Biden and the Dem establishment had 4 years to make?
  
  It’s already schedule I, the same as heroin.
  
  The Biden admin’s plan, which is in progress and is being held up by the DEA who have been told many times over the years to reschedule cannabis, is to put it at schedule III, which would be the same as, say, ketamine. Able to be prescribed, able to be researched.
  
  I stand corrected, yet this hardly discounts any of my concerns about Biden's prior level of commitment.
Fucked

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