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Biden only supported legalized medical marijuana, and to his credit, he did actually start the process to do that. He order rescheduling to schedule 3 which basically legalizes medical marijuana. It should go into effect around December as the DEA has dragged out the process

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

can't have something you can grow in your backyard replacing all kinds of expensive pills now, can we?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It’s actually an interesting conundrum. I have several relatives in the medical field and they would love to prescribe a cannabis or psilocybin treatment but cannot due to legal blocks, so they have to write an Rx for the pills. Assuming we don’t go full Gilead in the next week the research and development of natural treatments should continue, a lot of doctors are subscribing to the “plants not pills” avenue

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Don't follow what you are saying? Legalizing recreationally is also legalizing it medically

Even Biden supported medical marijuana and he already started the process to legalize that (via rescheduling)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What he's saying is that a lot of the forces against recreational legalization are also against medical legalization, and moreover that a lot of the "moral crusade" against it is actually just cynical anti-competitive business tactics.

Or, [sigh], maybe that's just what I'm reading into it and he had no deeper point to make.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

actually just cynical anti-competitive business tactics

yes, pharmaceutical companies lose money when people use weed instead of pain pills, or any of the other pills that weed replaces. but advocates for private prisons also want weed to stay as a schedule 1, because that means more bodies in more cells costing more tax dollars. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/13/289000532/why-for-profit-prisons-house-more-inmates-of-color

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Legalizing recreationally is also legalizing it medically

but legalizing medically is NOT legalizing recreationally

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes? Harris is saying she wants it legalized medically and recreationally. She's supporting full legalization here and she has earlier in the campaign

I still don't follow what you are trying to say? Unless you are just concuring with Harris?