Once OMB signs off, the DEA will take public comment on the plan to move marijuana from its current classification as a Schedule I drug, alongside heroin and LSD. It moves pot to Schedule III, alongside ketamine and some anabolic steroids, following a recommendation from the federal Health and Human Services Department. After the public comment period and a review by an administrative judge, the agency would eventually publish the final rule.

A very good development for reducing mass incarceration, but:

  1. Listen Fat, this is too little too late to save the 2024 election, if it’ll have even gone into effect by then.
  2. How fucking incompetent are Democrats that they’re taking the clock down to zero on this obvious win that should have been a “first 100 days” item.
  • SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    I’m not an expert but I’m pretty sure this means doctors can hand out prescriptions for not feelin’ too great. Basically legal with extra steps. And then I think this makes it literally possible to like, do the research legally needed to for regulators to push it even lower on the list without new laws being passed