Slightly higher times: Biden administration moves to loosen weed restrictions
Slightly higher times: Biden administration moves to loosen weed restrictions
Slightly higher times: Biden administration moves to loosen weed restrictions
The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is recommending that the Drug Enforcement Agency significantly loosen federal restrictions on marijuana but stopped short of advising that it should be entirely removed from the Controlled Substances Act.
The health agency wants the drug moved from Schedule I to Schedule III under the CSA, potentially the biggest change in federal drug policy in decades.
HHS Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine wrote in a Tuesday letter to the DEA, first reported by Bloomberg News, that the recommendation was based on a review conducted by the Food and Drug Administration.
Is this the thread where we remind everyone that Biden promised to deschedule cannabis and expunge cannabis related criminal records if elected?
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-promised-to-decriminalize-marijuana-he-shouldnt-wait-for-congress/
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executive branchpresident doesn't have the authority to unilaterally deschedule it. I'm no Biden fan, but this is him working toward that promise. I do wish his moves were less political in nature, but maybe we can get a more unhinged dark Brandon if he gets reelected.Edited for clarity.
What would you like from him? I see that he is very aggressively chasing public favor. "his moves were less political" - so there is something you'd like him to do that wouldn't be so popular?
Yes it does. The drug schedule is set by the FDA which is under the executive branch. The President cannot LEGALIZE it, that takes an act of Congress. But, the drug classification is completely in their power.
Either he promised to do something he couldn't do and you're defending him for it, or he promised to do something he could do and you're making excuses for him.