• esadatari@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    under schedule 3 it’ll be easier to obtain than adderal.

    i know the young folks think it should be an all or nothing solution but the truth is the country as a whole rarely moves that way with so many contending views.

    this is how you change those views against it, by removing the demonization over time in phases.

    this gives time for the private prison systems and big pharma and big alcohol/tobacco to get their ducks in a row for the changes that will surely arrive.

    when the people who believe that it is the worst drug ever see what a difference in perception can do as the government no longer demonizes it, that’s when it’ll be fully legalized.

    shit sucks but with over half the country filled with fucking idiots, you really need to be able to crawl before you can walk or even run. this is a step in the right direction and i’ve been around long enough to see what a fucking foot in the legal door this is.

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      10 months ago

      Weed is legal recreationally in 50% of the country already. Just legalize it federally.

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        10 months ago

        cool. let’s just get a list of all the republican congressman and senators that will surely vote yes on this.

        it’s not a dictatorship, thank god, and half the country’s leadership is against it and won’t vote for its legalization at this point in time.

        so go ahead. get that list of republicans. because they also have a lot of the deciding power. the president is one man on one side of the isle.

        this is a way of changing that slowly and surely.

        so while yea they should legalize it federally, with the current fuckwads on the right fucking things up for everyone, full legalization isn’t in the books yet. if you don’t see that, then there’s no getting through to you and have a nice day.

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      10 months ago

      What I am excited about is by easing scheduling scientific research could be done at a much faster rate. Having actual data and research would help guide the legal transition. Laws and social expectations will have to be worked out once it’s readily available.