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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: 0.203s | 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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romellem ◴[30 Apr 24 21:03 UTC] No.40216313[source]▶
It has been a multi-year effort to get the DEA to reclassify marijuana, starting in 2022. It starts with the President telling the HHS to provide a new recommendation to the DEA, and the finally for the DEA to decide what to do on that recommendation.

- https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

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1. gabesullice ◴[01 May 24 07:53 UTC] No.40220622[source]▶
The President is the chief executive of both agencies. He didn't need to have one agency recommend it to the other for consideration over a multi-year timescale. It could have been executed within a few weeks to a few months. The office of the President knowingly chose a prolonged approach.

I feel it is misleading to call it an "effort", as if the President was struggling against the very agencies that he was elected to lead, decisively. Congress is supposed to be the slow-moving deliberative rule-making body.

If he really did struggle, it would say a lot about the growth of the administrative state and would highlight a constitutional health issue.