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This is not a win, don't mistake it. They reclassified it and now it's going to be even hard to legalize because they'll use the excuse "we reclassified it already!". Full legalization is what we need, this doesn't actually change shit. Marijuana being illegal is one of the most racist laws we have.
Only on lemmy would Biden drastically reducing a very stupid and racist drug law that has persisted for decades be a bad thing.
Changing the classification away from "its basically heroin" changes a lot actually. Research funding, federal therapeutic use, authorized law enforcement actions, banking laws, these are all able to be shifted and changed in the context of weed now.
Its not the end of federal legalization attempts, it's the start. It drastically normalizes something at a federal level that has already been legalized at a state level. That's how you fully legalize it.
It's not some imagined set back because of weak "we did enough already" arguments that no one actually believes, especially with federal legalization at 70% popularity.
Lemmy is so full of extremists it's insane. Nothing but unwavering ideological commitment is accepted by any side. There is no positive news, only unethical compromise.
it's not just lemmy or reddit...
You just made clear that we don't have a system that represents the people. How exactly does it become legal now with the argument "we just reclassified it"? When does that happen? 2, 5, 10 years from now?
Who the fuck thought we did?
Anyone who believes the statement "land of the free, home of the brave" or "for liberty and justice for all". You're blind to think that we don't have so many in the US who believe we have a free country, and a free market.
You're just arguing whatever makes you angry like so many others on the Internet. 🥱
Good troll. I hope you like America after Trump wins because of stupid bullshit that our country keeps pulling. 🤡
WTF are you even talking about? How does that relate at all to the previous posts in this thread? You might want to see the doctor because you post like you have a brain worm.
Glad I got you mad, now fuck off.
You are so desperate to believe your little Internet posts affect anything.
Lol
Can I ask, respectfully, what you are doing to help besides complaining?
If you're so up in arms about the inherent racism in the criminalization and exploitation of cannabis, maybe don't use the manufactured term "marijuana", hmm? Coined to sound foreign (yes, Spanish specifically), it's part of the whole plan in the first place. 🤫
glad we got an expert to clear that up
Touch grass, toke grass, whatever's clever. Take care of you, citizen. Simmer.
In accordance with my initial point that it's a racist law to keep it illegal, I'll use cannabis from now on. Reading the history of the usage of the term "marijuana/marihuana/mariguana".
It's funny how we try to regulate a plant, yet the term cannabis could be referring to industrial hemp or the dankest highest THC concentration cultivar possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_(word)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativa#Cultivars
If by "funny", you mean "profit driven, all the way down", then yeah. It's fucking hilarious.