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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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662 points JacobHenner | 1 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source
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vkou ◴[30 Apr 24 17:38 UTC] No.40213662[source]▶
It's actually wild what the executive can get done in an election year... With the side effect of dangling bait for legislators to take a contrarian, nationally unpopular position.
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segasaturn ◴[30 Apr 24 17:52 UTC] No.40213870[source]▶
Election year and not to mention that the President's numbers are in shambles with younger voters. This move feels extremely transparent to me.
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flawsofar ◴[30 Apr 24 17:56 UTC] No.40213949[source]▶
Well I mean: doing things that people want them to do to get elected. Not the worst problem?
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segasaturn ◴[30 Apr 24 18:01 UTC] No.40214038[source]▶
Of course not, that's how democracy works!

My actual issue with this is:

a) it should have been done sooner. Waiting until $election_year to do something popular has severely damaged the growth of cannabis industry

and b) it's another executive branch rule by decree that could be reversed as soon as 6 months from now after election day.

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2OEH8eoCRo0 ◴[30 Apr 24 18:09 UTC] No.40214154[source]▶
> it should have been done sooner.

Not everyone agrees though. I don't want it legalized or normalized more.

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1. kbelder ◴[30 Apr 24 21:23 UTC] No.40216546[source]▶
I wish it was completely legal and completely non-normalized.