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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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662 points JacobHenner | 5 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:32 UTC | HN request time: 1.504s | source
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mannyv ◴[30 Apr 24 18:15 UTC] No.40214223[source]▶
One major effect of this is that weed stores will be able to use banks and payment processors legally once the regulators catch up.
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1. dragonwriter ◴[01 May 24 02:33 UTC] No.40218919[source]▶
Will they? Since it will be Schedule III, “weed stores” that aren't pharmacies distributing properly labelled drugs to people with prescriptions will still be violating the Controlled Substances Act and will probably have the same banking problems.
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2. sambull ◴[01 May 24 03:43 UTC] No.40219283[source]▶
I don't see how this anything but a mandate for the DEA to crack down on recreational.
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3. dragonwriter ◴[01 May 24 03:48 UTC] No.40219301[source]▶
I don't see how rescheduling to a less-restrictive category is a mandate to change the existing enforcement policy to a more restrictive one.
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4. meepmorp ◴[01 May 24 09:23 UTC] No.40221113{3}[source]▶
Obviously, weed has made OP paranoid
5. sambull ◴[01 May 24 22:21 UTC] No.40230331{3}[source]▶
Appears it clarifies the governments position that it be treated 'like ketamine' and any other schedule 3 drug.

Maybe recreational ketamine and codeine will be a thing?