Why is this not all over lemmy?!
tl;dr: Trump bumped marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. This is a big deal for research and has been holding the US medical community back for decades.
Yes, I’m certain there was a bribe involved. Maybe he got a golden bud. Don’t care. This Executive Order blows out a load of red tape. This is a huge move.
Doubt many hate Trump as much as I. 01/06 gave me PTSD light. And I’m not just saying that, still in shock, still can’t look at pics and certainly not videos. But FFS, can we not talk about a win when we get one?!
Why is it not all over? It’s just rescheduling, not legalizing. Yes, it’s a great first step, but with Epstein files, the inevitable war with Venezuela, and generally the thousand other things happening, it’s just not that exciting.
It’s not even that. He’s just saying that it SHOULD be rescheduled. It’s up to Congress to actually do it, I think.
I don’t mean “all over” mainstream media, but one would think lemmy would be doing backflips. I am! This opens research. The main thing holding back government and private research was the whole “No currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S.” This is a new ballgame.
Is it a good new ballgame? Without full legalization, you’re potentially giving huge pharmaceutical companies an in to dominate the Cannabis market. This does little to deal with the social/legal issues surrounding Cannabis.
Schedule III is like ketamine or some steroids. It’s a massive handout to monied interests that can force out reasonable production we’re seeing at the state level and makes it so weak legislators can say “well, there’s a legal route” and not support small producers and shops.
Research is nice, but they could do the obvious right thing and deschedule it, like alcohol, which would allow for the best of all of it.
Edit: deleted a typo.