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662 points JacobHenner | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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RankingMember ◴[] No.40214000[source]
While it being moved to Schedule ~II~ (Correction: III) rather than removed altogether is a bit disappointing, I'm not gonna miss the forest for the trees on this one: this is a big deal after all this time.
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1. viccis ◴[] No.40215865[source]
I agree. To me this feels like Biden, who loathes cannabis and has opposed its legalization at every turn, found a good way to still sontewall legalization and move the goalposts to distract everyone enough that they think he's done them a huge favor.

This will be nice for certain things, particularly payment processors for dispensaries, assuming that card processors don't continue to get in the way (don't see why they would).

But this won't fill the huge skill gap in public sector computer security due to weed getting in the way of clearances, for example. And for people in non-legal states, they will have to continue to use black markets to get it or gray markets like the "THCA" loophole (thanks unfortunately go to Trump for that one).

We shouldn't tolerate politicians delivering us half solutions when it's on issues that don't need compromise due to popular support!