RAW Interview: NORML Deputy Director discusses impacts of marijuana reclassification 

Tough to do after inhalation.🤠

Especially stoners

Freedom either.

Being on the schedule list period, let alone above things like alcohol and tobacco is infuriating. Aloe Vera is a plant that billions of individuals have growing in their living room right now, and also irrefutably has medicinal qualities. How come that isn't on a schedule list? How come they aren't going after home aloe growers? This is absurd. DECLASSIFY FULLY!!!

I swear I've tried... but failed.

Sorry but decriminalization would help you, not re classify.

If they would legalize it you could just grow/buy it and use it on your own accord. This is about money! They dont care about your health.

So communities gardens are against the law.

They're coming for those gardens via BG

I’m on the same boat as you.

It would take passing the current legalization bill in the Senate to start retroactively clearing sentences.

Foreals

I believe it's called Chevron deference, all your 3 letter agencies have it, check it out.

​@@amelliamendel2227 should not even exist and will be litigated more as the days go on. Congress did not give these agencies unilateral power to make these "rules" anything more than suggestions. Unelected officials do not make law.

@@codyharney2997 I'm not saying it's good I was just giving up search terms for others to look at how bad it is. Qualified immunity is Tyranny, if you consider the founding. Chevron deference literally takes representation out of the people's hands...

or Winstoneds

There has been a lot of progress in recent years with legalizing LSD and other psychedelics for therapeutic and in some cases personal use, it just doesn't get as much media attention. Google MAPS - the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

Absolutely, but this got biased since the victorian age when politi¢ian$ could manipulate whole populations. Most unfortunately medicalization put do¢tor$ & therapi$t$ in power, judiciarisation doing the same for police, politicization politi¢ian$, etc. E.g. quite a trap i shall say! One main issue i got about Norml is that they delay a bigger challenge: the natural right to EMANCIPATION free of 3rd-party socio-toxicity.

w/ lsd your tolerance goes up too quickly to abuse daily unless you got unlimited money or make it. i do it almost weekly or biweekly, phenomenal drug.

So, I guess you would not mind if someone gave you a massive dose of LSD? Chance of overdose maybe? Except for idiots gulping down THC edibles, there is really no way to overdose on pot.

@@vedacarmony5754can’t really overdose on LSD unless you have the solid form of it and ate like a rock, which would be 100,000+ hits of lsd. No one is doing that. Like ever lol. LSD deaths are rare but if you enter a state of psychosis then you could cause some damage, but alcohol is 100% legal and is just as likely if not more to cause violence and suicidal idealization in the wrong users.

Time. Being liberal is inevitable it all just takes time. Some people and places more so than others.

they should reach out to anyone other than the US....they've messed this up continuously, including w/ the new announcement....

Australia as well !!!

Australia too.

I remember in 2020 assholes talking about trust the "science"

They might pass medical?

I thought my earphones were broken too lol

2× POW myself ...

Habeas Corpus states that you can't be held in jail for 3 days without a trial. You should've gotten drastically reduced charges or charges dismissed based on what you had to go through.

@@Invisible_Difference I believe that 3 days without being charged ...

@@weytogoman I just checked and it is being brought before a court no more than 3 days after being detained. My lawyer told me the same. If I'm not mistaken, to be charged with something you'd need to be brought to court, so being brought to court would be a condition in either scenario.

@@Invisible_Difference sigh, a traffic ticket is a "charge", is it not ?

Shrooms even moreso

Very true. Legally all they could use was butt weed from Tennessee I believe.

Like they studied the covid shot?

You have that already in several countries that legalized it. I don’t need no American doctor to tell me what’s good. Just like Covid they will say anything they are told for the right amount of money.

Scientists study not doctors. Just pointing it out. They may prescribe and document results.

You'll get your reparations when the dead patients from your surgeries get theirs...

I can buy my own, the VA needs to stop using my indulgence to withhold pain meds for my malignant cancer ...

It won’t work, the youth are smarter than the politicians. They see the war on humanity sponsored by this administration. Can’t hide that with a little should’ve been decades ago action.

You could always just live your life without these scumbags ruling over you....

Very true. It doesn't belong in politics. And it irks me so much that the people campaigning for it hate pot, hate us, and don't even want it legal but just want votes and the industry just wants money. I don't think any of this has benefitted the overall quality and access of cannabis to the consumer. Warehouses full of mids . Craft grown top shelf buds have not been helped by any bit of this except the farm bull allowing seed sales.

Biden helped start that shite ... Joe Biden: The Architect of America’s Disastrous War on Drugs The Architect of the Drug War Uncle Joe might be everybody’s favorite political meme, but he is also responsible for many of the policies that led to the breakdown of the American criminal justice system. And after decades of perpetuating the War on Drugs, our country has finally been forced to take a hard look at the policies that led us to where we are today. Mass incarceration and mandatory minimum sentencing laws have destroyed innocent lives, torn apart families, and cost the American taxpayers $182 billion annually. The practice of civil asset forfeiture has allowed law enforcement to seize money and property from people who were neither charged with nor convicted of a crime. As a young US senator, Biden played a role in the creation and adoption of each of these policies. In January, looking to garner support for a future run, Biden spoke on criminal justice reform at an event sponsored by the National Action Network in Washington, DC. Few politicians have done more harm in America’s War on Drugs than the former senator from Delaware. Addressing a room full of criminal justice advocates, he said, “I haven’t always been right, but I’ve always tried.” While the first half of his statement is most certainly true, the second half is a harder pill to swallow. And the Americans affected by the destructive policies he penned might not forget Biden’s role as architect of the drug war. The website Leafly, which provides education on all things cannabis, went so far as to claim that “few politicians have done more harm in America’s war on drugs than the former senator from Delaware.” This is quite the accusation to make, but there is overwhelming evidence to back it all up. Tough on Crime In the 1980s, Biden fell victim to the “tough on crime” rhetoric that was so popular in its day. As a senator from Delaware, he served as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Department of Justice and is responsible for implementing many of the disastrous policies that were passed during this time. In a 1982 New York Times article, Biden coined the term “drug czar” when he called for the federal government to create this new role. The article says: But Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., … who is a strong advocate of antinarcotics efforts, said today that he thought no program could work without a Cabinet-level "drug czar" in charge to coordinate the work of various agencies. Just a few years later, Biden got his wish with the creation of the new Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), whose head is referred to as the “drug czar.” And with this new department came stricter policies for drug offenders and a hefty price tag for the American public. In one of its earlier reports, the ONDCP asked for more taxpayer dollars to enforce its new policies: Last February, this Administration requested nearly $717 million in new drug budget authority for Fiscal Year 1990. Now, after six months of careful study, we have identified an immediate need for $1.478 billion more. With this report, the Administration is requesting FY 1990 drug budget authority totaling $7.864 billion-the largest single-year dollar increase in history. In addition to supporting the creation of the ONDCP, Biden also voted for its reauthorization in 1996 and supported its propaganda campaign against the American people. In the bill that received support from the former veep, it reads: The Director shall ensure that no Federal funds appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be expended for any study or contract relating to the legalization (for a medical use or any other use) of a substance listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) and take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of [such] a substance (in any form). In other words, the ONDCP committed itself to keep certain substances illegal even if new credible information comes to light. In fact, as the last line suggests, the drug czar is even encouraged to take whatever action is necessary to keep this information from the American public. This should terrify anyone concerned with government transparency. In 1984, Biden cosponsored the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. This legislation gave law enforcement the authority to seize money and property from those suspected of drug trafficking-without ever having to charge them with a crime. This resulted in the decades-long practice of civil asset forfeiture that has incentivized law enforcement to police for profit and steal from the same individuals they have sworn to protect. Mass Incarceration In 1994, Biden’s signature piece of legislation, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, was signed into law by President Clinton. The bill expanded the federal government’s use of the death penalty, banned certain people from owning assault weapons, denied certain higher education rights to inmates, and included the “three-strike” provision for repeat offenders. It also contributed to the dramatic rise in the country’s prison population in the years that followed. Clinton later apologized for the bill, saying, “I signed a bill that made the problem worse and I want to admit it.” Unfortunately, Biden has issued no such apology, but the policy manager for the Drug Policy Alliance, Michael Collins, commented: "Joe Biden should apologize-just as Bill Clinton did-for his role in mass incarceration, and he should champion systemic change.” Biden helped change the law so that those caught with a mere 5 grams of crack had the same mandatory minimum as those caught with 500 of cocaine. Perhaps the most egregious of Biden’s transgressions is the role he played in the creation of the 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. As the country panicked over the “crack” epidemic, legislators set out to dole out harsher punishments to those found guilty of selling the substance. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which was written at least partially by Biden, changed the law so that those caught with a mere five grams of crack cocaine were subject to the same mandatory minimum as those caught with 500 grams of powdered cocaine. The application of this law disproportionately harmed African-American communities and contributed to mass incarceration. In 2003, Biden sponsored the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (RAVE Act), which altered existing legislation known as the “crackhouse law.” The RAVE Act made it legal for prosecutors to go after club owners and promoters if drugs are found on their property. The law effectively allowed the club owners to be tried as if they were running a crackhouse (hence the original name). However, while Biden maintained a “tough on crime” attitude with the rest of the country, his own children were being spared any punishments for their drug crimes. In 1998, Biden’s daughter Ashley was arrested for cannabis possession in Louisiana. While others arrested for the same offense faced sentences sometimes spanning decades, Ashley Biden was never convicted of any drug-related crime. In 2014, Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy after testing positive for cocaine. Then there's the photos of a crack pipe hanging out of his mouth while passed out and him partially nude with a scantily clad 8yo. Like his daughter, no charges were ever filed against Biden’s son. Although Hunter still has to answer about the $10,000,000+ he and Joe acquired from Romania, Ukraine and China.

They have tons of things measured by their mg of cannabinoid content. I think maybe what you mean is something like FECO or Rick Simpson oil. Check them out

Amen

Wtf is stoning? 😂

did you ever notice when the gov gets involved. everything goes to shit

Ffs. Booze is legal. Are surgeons operating on people while drunk? No, so the same can be said for cannabis.

People crash sober. Doctors have accidents sober. People have workplace accidents sober. And whether someone uses a substance of any sort while working is on them. Not the substance or politics. .

This moves it down the federal controlled substances schedule. Should not affect states where recreational and/or medical cannabis are legal and in lots of cases you are allowed to grow your own. It gets the feds out of enforcing reefer madness laws that over half the states are just ignoring anyway. And it will allow legal cannabis businesses access to banks and other financial services that the federal Schedule 1 classification prohibits them from using. As for Cannabis Inc, that's already a thing.

uhhh, no. too many companies and people are growing in the established states and the same will happen everywhere now. major companies getting involved will only decrease the costs more. it will certainly reach a plateau though as manufacturing ingredients only get so cheap. i'm in maine and i can get ounces of good bud for $50-100 at any med dispensary. the prices have plummetted in the last 2 years. you can pick up an ounce of kief for like $20. you can spend $100 and smoke heavy for a month, where as taking your girl to dinner, a movie and a few drinks you can only do once for that price...if your watching your budget