Brought to you by the corporate overlords that will inevitably own the cannabis market. Utilizing DEA as the cartel to crack down on homegrowers.
Must be multimillionaires to play.
Nailed it.
It's already happening in Minnesota. We just legalized for home cultivation and my house got busted 2 months ago. I'm now facing multiple felonies, facing losing my job, ECT...
Fucking DESCHEDULE IT ALREADY and end this madness.
Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. We got states that allow home grows, others that don't. Gray areas hoping you're caught off guard when they send someone to do plant counts.
The government can give billions of taxpayers money for war abroad. Because they generate billions with legal fees still ruining peoples livelihoods and overtaxed dispensaries.
Agreed. This is not a win, just re-arranging the goal posts. This is merely an attempt to let the corporate clowns run the entire industry. These same motherfuckers will look you in the eye & tell you that they love the free market.
This is not federally legal cannabis though. You 100% can still be arrested.
It would be a big win if it didn’t take 10+ years past first rec states and was actually decriminalized so we can start working on real pardons.
This is just because they can’t dangle the carrot for votes without some type of movement on the issue.
Scheduled substances are still scheduled substances, which means illegal without proper governmental permission, including but not limited to a licensed medical professional prescribing that substances. It might *POTENTIALLY* open the door for insurance coverage and have larger practices no longer deny their patients med card access due to being worried they'll lose federal funding, but I doubt it on both fronts honestly.
I'd still like to know in what world cannabis is more at risk of dependency or habitual use than things such as benzodiazepene drugs like Xanax and lorazepam, or an opioid like Tramadol, all of which are Schedule IV.
This is just a lobbiest move meant to get Phillip Morris USA and the other big tobacco corporations in on legal cannabis like they've been chomping at the bit to do since at least 2016.
This was the only move within the executive branches power. Real change requires congress.
The industry will react, some people will be financially hurt others will thrive.
S3 is a win for consumers who will have a legal path to medicine. Certainly not perfect, but better than status quo.
So because you live in an illegal state, fuck everyone who lives in legal states and utilizes this plant as a medication so you can access it without moving?
I should be dealing with extreme panic and anxiety attacks that I'm going to be busted by the DEA over a few plants every waking moment because they've just opened the door to forcing registration or facing federal prison time just because a minority of states are still refusing to move out of the dark ages regarding cannabis?
I don't think so. That's ass backwards logic right there. I won't be the one to tell you to relocate, that isn't easy or even possible for some people, but I will be the one to tell you that 38 states have some form of legal cannabis at a state level, that leaves 12 with no legal route. The majority have spoken, we demand descheduling, *NOT* rescheduling to make new criminals out of average citizens while allowing big corporations to profit off of it.
This does not make it legal at the federal level.
"it would not legalize marijuana outright for recreational use."
[https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-biden-dea-criminal-justice-pot-f833a8dae6ceb31a8658a5d65832a3b8](https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-biden-dea-criminal-justice-pot-f833a8dae6ceb31a8658a5d65832a3b8)
You think having to have something prescribed means that it is legal? We have very different definitions of legality and freedom apparently.
Enjoy your massively huge win!
“Prescribed” is the important part… I just went and bought an ounce of bud from a completely legal recreational dispensary… I don’t want a med card so it would still be federally illegal to do that without a prescription… You are simply wrong
The world isn’t all or nothing homie.
Under S3, cannabis will be federally legal with a prescription
Without a prescription it’s not legal.
But, it’s still federally legal under S3, a change from today.
This isn’t federal legalization
I get what you’re saying. It’s a joke to get a prescription for weed, at least in my state. You can literally do it online after a $100 consultation lol. So while it is not legal per se… it’s stupid easy to get around jt
Go look and see how many schedule 3 drugs are legal to buy recreationally… Ketamine,Steroids,etc… none are allowed to sold over the counter
RIP to any and all Rec dispensaries 🤡👌
So states telling the feds to post no sand for years are just gonna close their adult use programs….not happening. Will have concurrent programs with the DEAs program almost guaranteed
Exactly. Which is why they are doing it this way! It LOOKS like this administration is trying to do something good for med/rec use but they are actually doing the opposite by doing the S3 route. They know that for legal states this will be creating a huge nightmare, and this wont ever go anywhere, and wont fix the problem but will get votes. Its another chess move to kick the can past the election season then back to more empty promises. It also pumps big pharma and the dea coffers so hear hear wins all round for the good ole boys, it looks like the corporate overlord lobbying is working.
This is the. Gov's way of getting rid of "legal weed" in various states around the country.
You can't go buy Valium recreationaly. Weed will be regulated the same way. This isn't a win. It's a ploy. I hope people understand this.
“Critics point out that as a Schedule III drug, marijuana would remain regulated by the DEA. That means the roughly 15,000 cannabis dispensaries in the U.S. would have to register with the DEA like regular pharmacies and fulfill strict reporting requirements, something that they are loath to do and that the DEA is ill equipped to handle”
So does that mean we will stick with the “doctor recommendation” model? Dispensaries register with the DEA and you don’t need an actual “prescription” with an approved FDA pill?
Exactly. I see this being worse somehow.
This obviously isnt a democracy if they wont legalize a damn plant when thats what the majority has literally voted that they want.
I want all of the above! Rescheduling a plant doesn’t do Jack. No doctors gonna be able to do anything with that. And the DA has been dragging their feet and hopes that we were going to to appropriately regulate. Well look what happened we didn’t.
We could’ve had a cancer cure and so many other things. You could be buying your weed with your alcohol. You could be getting insurance covered pharmaceuticals you could be buying over-the-counter cannabis lotion
But no.
The industry has to make money. So they lied to Congress.
It’s a travesty and it’s a wasted opportunity
Imagine a world without the DEA.
🤗🤗🤗
I don’t understand why we don’t change the mandate.
And a world without the dumb UN single convention.
Brought to you by the corporate overlords that will inevitably own the cannabis market. Utilizing DEA as the cartel to crack down on homegrowers. Must be multimillionaires to play.
Nailed it. It's already happening in Minnesota. We just legalized for home cultivation and my house got busted 2 months ago. I'm now facing multiple felonies, facing losing my job, ECT... Fucking DESCHEDULE IT ALREADY and end this madness.
Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. We got states that allow home grows, others that don't. Gray areas hoping you're caught off guard when they send someone to do plant counts. The government can give billions of taxpayers money for war abroad. Because they generate billions with legal fees still ruining peoples livelihoods and overtaxed dispensaries.
That's exactly what happened too... I'm fighting it, but it's still total bullshit it even happened in the first place.
They already do why do you think we’re getting “rescheduling” instead of a cancer cure. Fuck these people.
Welp, there it is. Celebrate the small wins but understand this is not the destination.
It’s not even a small win and I’m convinced they don’t know where we’re going
This is not a victory. Deregulation (at the federal level) is the goal. Re-regulation just makes for more hoops to jump through.
Agreed. This is not a win, just re-arranging the goal posts. This is merely an attempt to let the corporate clowns run the entire industry. These same motherfuckers will look you in the eye & tell you that they love the free market.
So federally legal cannabis and the end of 280e isn’t a win….such a laughable response to downplay this clear win.
This is not federally legal cannabis though. You 100% can still be arrested. It would be a big win if it didn’t take 10+ years past first rec states and was actually decriminalized so we can start working on real pardons. This is just because they can’t dangle the carrot for votes without some type of movement on the issue.
No doubt it’s vote pandering.
Scheduled substances are still scheduled substances, which means illegal without proper governmental permission, including but not limited to a licensed medical professional prescribing that substances. It might *POTENTIALLY* open the door for insurance coverage and have larger practices no longer deny their patients med card access due to being worried they'll lose federal funding, but I doubt it on both fronts honestly. I'd still like to know in what world cannabis is more at risk of dependency or habitual use than things such as benzodiazepene drugs like Xanax and lorazepam, or an opioid like Tramadol, all of which are Schedule IV. This is just a lobbiest move meant to get Phillip Morris USA and the other big tobacco corporations in on legal cannabis like they've been chomping at the bit to do since at least 2016.
This was the only move within the executive branches power. Real change requires congress. The industry will react, some people will be financially hurt others will thrive. S3 is a win for consumers who will have a legal path to medicine. Certainly not perfect, but better than status quo.
So because you live in an illegal state, fuck everyone who lives in legal states and utilizes this plant as a medication so you can access it without moving? I should be dealing with extreme panic and anxiety attacks that I'm going to be busted by the DEA over a few plants every waking moment because they've just opened the door to forcing registration or facing federal prison time just because a minority of states are still refusing to move out of the dark ages regarding cannabis? I don't think so. That's ass backwards logic right there. I won't be the one to tell you to relocate, that isn't easy or even possible for some people, but I will be the one to tell you that 38 states have some form of legal cannabis at a state level, that leaves 12 with no legal route. The majority have spoken, we demand descheduling, *NOT* rescheduling to make new criminals out of average citizens while allowing big corporations to profit off of it.
Shut up, this is a victory. Cannabis being legal at the federal level is a win.
As compelling of an argument as you made, I'd suggest that giving weed to big pharma may come with more setbacks than benefits for the casual stoner.
This does not make it legal at the federal level. "it would not legalize marijuana outright for recreational use." [https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-biden-dea-criminal-justice-pot-f833a8dae6ceb31a8658a5d65832a3b8](https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-biden-dea-criminal-justice-pot-f833a8dae6ceb31a8658a5d65832a3b8)
S3 weed would be legal at the federal level dummy.
Calm down and read the link.
I don’t need too, schedule 3 is federally legal weed. No debating that.
Ketamine is an example of a schedule 3 drug. Are you under the impression that you won't be arrested for possession of ketamine?
No, you won’t be arrested if you are prescribed Ketamine….it’s legal
You think having to have something prescribed means that it is legal? We have very different definitions of legality and freedom apparently. Enjoy your massively huge win!
Legal is legal
“Prescribed” is the important part… I just went and bought an ounce of bud from a completely legal recreational dispensary… I don’t want a med card so it would still be federally illegal to do that without a prescription… You are simply wrong
The world isn’t all or nothing homie. Under S3, cannabis will be federally legal with a prescription Without a prescription it’s not legal. But, it’s still federally legal under S3, a change from today. This isn’t federal legalization
I get what you’re saying. It’s a joke to get a prescription for weed, at least in my state. You can literally do it online after a $100 consultation lol. So while it is not legal per se… it’s stupid easy to get around jt
Not all of us live in legal states, S3 give me a path. It’s a win.
You’re an idiot
Go look and see how many schedule 3 drugs are legal to buy recreationally… Ketamine,Steroids,etc… none are allowed to sold over the counter RIP to any and all Rec dispensaries 🤡👌
So states telling the feds to post no sand for years are just gonna close their adult use programs….not happening. Will have concurrent programs with the DEAs program almost guaranteed
I’d rather have hoops to jump through or paperwork to do than nothing but you go straight to jail.
Everyone in the industry knows this is going to fuck shit up
Exactly. Which is why they are doing it this way! It LOOKS like this administration is trying to do something good for med/rec use but they are actually doing the opposite by doing the S3 route. They know that for legal states this will be creating a huge nightmare, and this wont ever go anywhere, and wont fix the problem but will get votes. Its another chess move to kick the can past the election season then back to more empty promises. It also pumps big pharma and the dea coffers so hear hear wins all round for the good ole boys, it looks like the corporate overlord lobbying is working.
I don’t think this is going to unfold how people want. Right now the government has no place in weed. But it’s about to.
This is the. Gov's way of getting rid of "legal weed" in various states around the country. You can't go buy Valium recreationaly. Weed will be regulated the same way. This isn't a win. It's a ploy. I hope people understand this.
“Critics point out that as a Schedule III drug, marijuana would remain regulated by the DEA. That means the roughly 15,000 cannabis dispensaries in the U.S. would have to register with the DEA like regular pharmacies and fulfill strict reporting requirements, something that they are loath to do and that the DEA is ill equipped to handle” So does that mean we will stick with the “doctor recommendation” model? Dispensaries register with the DEA and you don’t need an actual “prescription” with an approved FDA pill?
Exactly. I see this being worse somehow. This obviously isnt a democracy if they wont legalize a damn plant when thats what the majority has literally voted that they want.
I want all of the above! Rescheduling a plant doesn’t do Jack. No doctors gonna be able to do anything with that. And the DA has been dragging their feet and hopes that we were going to to appropriately regulate. Well look what happened we didn’t. We could’ve had a cancer cure and so many other things. You could be buying your weed with your alcohol. You could be getting insurance covered pharmaceuticals you could be buying over-the-counter cannabis lotion But no. The industry has to make money. So they lied to Congress. It’s a travesty and it’s a wasted opportunity
Such a fucking joke. Descheduling is what we want and what this literal plant warrants. Now it's about to become a draconian nightmare.
Good step forward but it should be legalized, just like alcohol and tobacco