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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: 0.228s | source
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starspangled ◴[01 May 24 05:37 UTC] No.40219850[source]▶
The greatest thing about tight, upcoming elections is that governments actually start to do a tiny bit of what people want. Great result.
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rsingel ◴[01 May 24 08:04 UTC] No.40220713[source]▶
You are underestimating the time it takes to get stuff done in a big bureaucracy AND the fear of the Congressional Review Act. It's the nuclear option where Congress not only reverses an agency decision but also ban the agency from ever doing that thing again in the future.

But Congress can only go far back so agencies are racing to put out regulations now so that a potentially hostile Congress in 2024 can't undo what they did easily.

See for example net neutrality from the FCC, FTC regs, airline refund regs from FAA and more.

Yes, all of this might help in the election, but if this were really just about elections, you would see these announcements in September and October.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act

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1. rsingel ◴[01 May 24 08:09 UTC] No.40220738[source]▶
Or shorter, given that this regulation is aimed at stoners who are notorious for having memory issues, you'd release this 6 days before an election, not six months before.