Cannabis

SarahD

(1,732 posts) Fri Jan 12, 2024, 11:40 PM Jan 2024

Good news but don't get too excited.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/health/marijuana-rescheduling-fda-review/index.html

A federal scientific review found that cannabis shod be classified less dangerous than its current killer status. Of course, each state can ignore the findings and fill the prisons with pot smokers. Heaven help them if they're trans! The war on drugs persists in the same places we find Jim Crow voter registration laws, xenophobia, death penalty frenzy, and all the other throwback efforts.

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Good news but don't get too excited. (Original Post) SarahD Jan 2024 OP

Definitely should be reclassified. Is there anyone in prison for smoking pot, nowadays? Silent Type Jan 2024 #1

The feds quit entirely. SarahD Jan 2024 #2

Thanks. I do think 20,000 is way too much from what I've read. But even 300 Silent Type Jan 2024 #3

Back in the 60s it was a lot more fun multigraincracker Jan 2024 #4

Yeah it was a lot more fun for me... GReedDiamond Jan 2024 #7

They say they won't change it until Tree Lady Jan 2024 #5

we in la had a short 8 year break from the worst of this madness. rampartc Jan 2024 #6

Silent Type

(6,145 posts)

1. Definitely should be reclassified. Is there anyone in prison for smoking pot, nowadays?

Reply to SarahD (Original post)

Fri Jan 12, 2024, 11:52 PM

Jan 2024

But other stuff is totally accurate.

SarahD

(1,732 posts)

2. The feds quit entirely.

Reply to Silent Type (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 13, 2024, 12:42 AM

Jan 2024

Nobody gets put in the federal pen for simple possession. Texas, on the other hand, has over 2o thousand in prison for simple possession. Three or four grams can get you several years. Insane.

Silent Type

(6,145 posts)

3. Thanks. I do think 20,000 is way too much from what I've read. But even 300

Reply to SarahD (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 13, 2024, 12:51 AM

Jan 2024

is 300 too many.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2022/10/26/where-did-bidens-pardon-of-marijuana-charges-leave-the-hundreds-of-texans-imprisoned/

multigraincracker

(33,913 posts)

4. Back in the 60s it was a lot more fun

Reply to SarahD (Original post)

Sat Jan 13, 2024, 01:56 AM

Jan 2024

when it was illegal. Not complaining, just not the same.

GReedDiamond

(5,365 posts)

7. Yeah it was a lot more fun for me...

Reply to multigraincracker (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 16, 2024, 03:36 AM

Jan 2024

...in the early 70s when the cops beat the shit out of me and then charged me with 6 felonies because I had 1 ounce of "marijuana" aka cannabis.

That's the long story short of how fun it was.

Tree Lady

(12,166 posts)

5. They say they won't change it until

Reply to SarahD (Original post)

Sat Jan 13, 2024, 02:00 AM

Jan 2024

after the public speaks. I will be surprised if the majority doesn't say this should have been done 50 years ago!

rampartc

(5,835 posts)

6. we in la had a short 8 year break from the worst of this madness.

Reply to SarahD (Original post)

Sat Jan 13, 2024, 02:06 AM

Jan 2024

now our new maga governor is threatening to take my prescription.

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