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However, it would not legalize marijuana outright for recreational use.
boooooooring. typical 
nothing burger.
is it a step in the right direction? yes. in the same way that pulling your pants down and leaving your underwear on while you take a shit is "better than nothing".
can't wait to see how this is framed by all the $500 haircuts and thinkpiece typers as the most powerful and earth shattering move for personal freedom since the emancipation.
It's more than a nothing burger, but you're right that it's far short of the obviously right policy.
Most (all?) drug laws, even state ones, are based on how drugs are federally scheduled. Downgrading marijuana's scheduling will have a real impact on what cases will stick, available penalties, etc.
Marijuana is illegal for a reason. My cousin smoked ONE jazz cigarette and he DIED within moments of the "toke". Biden better rethink this or he'll have blood on his hands.
I did a key bump of weed in college once and now whenever I crack my back, I get the munchies.
My cousin, had gone through a bad breakup, and I mean he hardly seemed like himself. One night he was hanging out with us and I thought he was going hard. He wouldn't listen to reason. He ended up injecting 7 marijuanas. His blood went septic before it crystalized in his veins. He turned into a translucent statue by the morning. I still miss him. I really just cannot believe people think this drug is okay. It's not.
My friends and I made this same joke FOR YEARS
it's true, I'm the jazz cigarette his cousin smoked and he died
The weed is too strong, though.
Skill issue
Continually breeding strains to get the most THC, and thus most profit, at expense of the other cannabinoids present in the plant is bourgeois decadence and counter-revolutionary.
Eugenics works!
I think that was Becky.
Juke joints are dangerous places.
Your cousin was a SINNER and a SATANIST, and he deserved it.
Schedule I drug, alongside heroin and LSD
bro what is LSD doing up there?? lil bro thinks he's on the team
given how common it seems to be for men to discover empathy for the first time when tripping on acid I'm not surprised they banned it
Schedule III is still federally illegal to smoke recreationally so what will this actually do besides just make people get angry whenever their doctor refuses to prescribe medical marijuana because it is still de facto illegal in their state
Looking like you’re doing something while actually doing nothing is a democrat skill
Democrats and splitting the difference perfectly to piss off both sides, name a more iconic duo.
I imagine a few days ago...
Aide 1: "We're gonna do something on wacky tobaccy."
Aide 2: "Performative bullshit?"
Aide 1: "Of course."
Aide 2: "Why?"
Aide 1: "I just came back from briefing POTUS on the Tiktok focus group data."
might like truck drivers finally be allowed to smoke if such a thing as a federal MJ card comes into being
but something like that will probably require another 5 years of political BS time wasting
I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure this means doctors can hand out prescriptions for not feelin' too great. Basically legal with extra steps. And then I think this makes it literally possible to like, do the research legally needed to for regulators to push it even lower on the list without new laws being passed
Biden doesn't even have the balls to make marijuana legal to save his presidency. Feckless Democrats.
Sounds like genocide Biden is desperate for votes.
It's hard to tell what's driving the timing on this news, beyond it not being a priority for Biden. The article mentions he called for a review of the drug scheduling scheme back in October '22, which suggests it's not a response to Palestine.
He recommended the HHS (overarching org of the FDA) reevaluate the schedule status of it back in October '22. The HHS took like a year to do their thing and then made a recommendation to the DEA to change it to schedule III. The rest of the time from them until now was the DEA also doing their own internal review.
I feel like if the timing was political, they would have pushed this news out to late summer closer to the election. That's not even considering the fact that a simple majority in Congress could have done the same damn thing without any of this beurocracy.
Pretty sure the president can reschedule drugs with the stroke of a pen, and this whole process Iis basically political insulation.
Weird how every democrat piece of progressive legislation just somehow mysteriously ends up perfectly timed to overlap into a Republican administration that will overturn it!
Lmao but still won’t legalize it even though that would probably win him reelection
Why do Dems even exist
Guess you can say this move is...
Behind schedule
Listen Fat, this is too little too late to save the 2024 election, if it'll have even gone into effect by then.
they'll say "we need to elect Genocide Joe or Trump might stop the rescheduling process"
Quick! Quick! They're really mad give them weed hurry!
Wow Biden must be desperate. You do this shit in the early days of your presidency so you don't appear desperate to voters.
Idea for a bit if this passes before Nov: Blaming a Trump win on Liberals toking instead of voting
What’s the DEA version of the parliamentarian?
The Parliament/Funkadelician
An international treaty from 1961. Not joking.
This is not enough to undo literal genocide but sure I will give the Biden admin credit if they actually succeed at doing this.
I still won't vote for the genocidal maniac though
Why dont they criminalize all poisonous plants
Like poison ivy and stuff too?
removing the poison ivy growing on my fence and getting tackled by 10 pigs
I'm actually immune to poison ivy!
I think this means I'm a sovereign citizen.
It's not poisonous, but this gave me the mental image of classifying kudzu and watching the DEA napalm the entire southeast only to discover the kudzu is winning and now I can't stop giggling.
honestly poison oak should be illegal
But you'll have to wait until after the election to find out it's not happening kids!!
And it's still a schedule III drug, means testing beyond means testing.
Even the private sector is doing better acting like its an election year, look at the recent surge in gas prices to try to get you to vote red. There's going to be some hidden audio that's going to be leaked about dems fully admitting they are taking a dive this election in hopes the GOP will be left holding the bag when the recession is officially recognized.