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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Guessing weed business would boom, and government gain a tonne of tax, which Trump would take credit for.

So no. Can't see him doing it.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Good old "Nothing will fundamentally change" Joe.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Biden, smiling as he puts on shades and eats ice cream: "No. Peace, I'm out."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I mean, everyone said he was too old to do the job.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He was never going to do it and never will.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Isn't it already ruled he has presidential immunity? Why isn't he doing more? I understand he has some time but like... I hope there's at least a "welcome package" for trump. I have no faith in anything anymore

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Yeah. All faith in democrats wanting to do the BAREST MINIMUM to make a difference is flat out gone. Both sides apparently want the poor dead or in prison. Republicans are just gonna make it happen faster.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The time to do that really would have been before the election... He did reschedule it, but that can be undone day one. I honestly think the fascist voters would credit Trump. I've heard them say "already things are getting better" with no hint of irony.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He did reschedule it

He did not. Cannabis is still Schedule I.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn you're right, they did start the process, but the DEA pushed it back to 2025 after originally expecting it this year.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He started the multi-year process to do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When he knew it was too late to finish it during his term. He ran out the clock.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

So your options were re-elect the team who are following the process but started late and put and end to federal prosecutions while he was in office, or re-elect the guy whose last AG was 100% against any reform attempts and actively prosecuted offenders.

But no, go ahead and tell me how Trump was the better option here. This is why the republicans win. Everything on the left is a purity test where we endlessly belittle our politicians for not delivering everything all at once on day one, while the right makes plans that span decades to take power. Look at the Federalist Society. It took them decades to arrange for the moment where they would have decisive control over the judicial branch so they could crime with impunity. But tell me how Biden not completing a five year process in four years was too slow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe Democrats should have their own Federalist Society then. They're the ones running the party and if they can't implement the sort of multi-decade program that it takes to produce real change then maybe they're shit at their jobs.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Crime Bill Biden ran out the clock on purpose. He never had any intention to reschedule cannabis.

NONE.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The only meaningful change for this would be via legislation, otherwise trump can just as easily undo it the same day.

Edit: looks like the process is much more complicated and actually Biden already started the process at the beginning of this year (April): https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/update-deas-efforts-reschedule-cannabis-what-you-need-know-2024-09-11/ , I don't understand this article

Edit 2: the letter is actually asking him to try to hurry the process up (the article from September that I linked says there supposed to be hearing scheduled this Monday (Dec 2nd)). It is very misleading (as you can see from the comments), because it implies Biden is just ignoring this issue completely.

https://lee.house.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_biden_admin_re_marijuana.pdf

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

He actually started the process to review what it was scheduled as to get it changed in 2022. It like everything else surrounding our government takes forever.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-submits-proposed-regulation-reschedule-marijuana

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Everything with government doesn’t have to be slow, but congress wrote this bill so that two successive presidents would have to keep pursuing it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It like everything else surrounding our government takes forever.

Unless of course it's something he wants to do, like sell weapons for an ongoing genocide. Then all bureaucracy evaporates into nothingness.

His hands are untied when he wants them to be.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Look, I get that you’re trying to make a point, but this is like complaining your parents were able to pay the mortgage every week but not buy you a new bike. One is planned, budgeted, agreed upon by all parties. The other is something you want, that takes time and planning which has yet to take place.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

looks like the process is much more complicated and actually Biden already started the process at the beginning of this year

Right. He waited until it couldn't be completed until after the end of his term. On purpose. He ran out the clock. On purpose.

He never wanted to reschedule cannabis and dragged his feet until he didn't have to.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I worry that they'll just open a can of worms and fuck up our farm bill access.

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