[HN Gopher] Justice Department formally moves to reclassify mari...
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       Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana
        
       Author : hyggetrold
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2024-05-16 21:01 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | coldpie wrote:
       | Brought to you by the 2020 election. Remember this come November.
        
       | Ajay-p wrote:
       | I don't like when politicians only respond to overwhelming public
       | discontent or desires in an election year. This reclassification
       | is a good thing, absolutely, but it angers me that policymakers
       | wait and treat us like baying kittens eager for a morsel of
       | acknowledgement from our elected leaders.
        
         | bairen wrote:
         | It really is silly it was classified as more dangerous than
         | cocaine.
         | 
         | A drug that you can actually overdose on.
        
           | droopyEyelids wrote:
           | It wasn't silly, it was a deliberate choice to hurt
           | politically undesirable demographics.
        
           | tpmoney wrote:
           | It's even more ridiculous when you learn that there is a
           | prescription form of medical THC, fully legal and authorized
           | under the FDA and DEA rules. And it's a schedule III.
        
         | rat87 wrote:
         | Government regulations take a while to be properly written,
         | this has been slowly moving for more then a Year.
        
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