US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

This should make your blood run cold. Executive Orders were never intended to be the avenue through which novel law was established. The Executive has absorbed so much of what was the purview of the legislative branch it isn't even funny.

Re-posting from 7 years ago...

[1][2] "The top 6 countries [2] with the highest Muslim populations are not (temp) banned, yet somehow it's a "Muslim Ban"."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13515783

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150406003902/http://www.pewfor...

[3] archive.org wayback needs a backup

While I would like to see the decriminalization of all drugs, I do not think President should act like an emperor and just pass EOs. EO are not meant for this sort of actions. Remember, next president is going to be Trump and he can pass even worse EOs.

Executive Orders: https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/execu...

You don't even know how deep the rabbit-hole goes:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_veto

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_statement

Yes, exactly, reactionaries will continue to leverage every state apparatus they can get their hands on to cement their hold on power, and liberals will continue to wring their hands and pat each other on the back about not "misusing the tools of democracy." Thus you are right, Trump will win because he'll declare himself president, the liberals will do nothing, and American democracy will be completely dismantled within the decade.

I do not buy this excuse. One party has no hangups about issuing ridiculous EOs. The other should rid itself of its hangups in issuing rational humanitarian EOs, because that results in the best outcome for humanity.

Ultimately they did not do that because they expect this cannabis inevitability to be disruptive and want the rollout to appease the pharmaceutical companies that donate to their campaigns.