Plans sound great, but I’ll be happy once it’s actually reclassified. This is long overdue.
*descheduled entirely
There’s no reason for this to be on the list at all, it’s less harmful than beer and has actual medical uses. Alcohol has practically no medical use, kills thousands every year and leaves thousands more with life long debilitating health problems, but it’s not even a controlled substance.
I mean, it’s an excellent sterilizer. It does have uses.
“The stuff they use to for sterilizing operating room… yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s okay mother.”
Prescription medications are scheduled. So medical uses isn’t a reason to not schedule something.
Alcohol and tabacco were specifically excluded from the CSA. I’m pretty sure we’d need an act of congress to actually deschedule anything.
Agreed. We’ve been waiting on the DEA since HHS recommended schedule 3 in 2022. As soon as they make their formal assessment we can move forward.
Why don’t they just fully legalize it already? Haven’t like half the states already?
Decriminalization requires congressional action. It’s currently a stalled bill in the Senate.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4591/all-actions
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
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Biden campaigned on full legalization, can’t even do that…
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If you vote for Trump over Israel, then you’re encouraging the eradication of the Palestinians.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t protest, but the options for Israel at the polls are support vs. encouragement.
Edit: It’s everything else that really differs, and should be taken more seriously.
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I disagree. Trump said the problem with Israel’s actions in Gaza is that they keep recording it, and that they should just finish the job. Netanyahu is so fond of Trump, he inaugurated a town after him in Golan Heights.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/politics/trump-israel-comments/index.html
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Biden should be acting on the genocide but he isn’t and neither will Trump. The only two people capable of being in office in the next 4 years.
So pressure Congress, protest and do everything you can but in the meantime those two are nothing alike on most other issues and being a single issue voter has never made the system better.
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Let me ask this- Who do you suggest people vote for in order to not be supporting Israel?
Unfortunately, if you view a vote as being complicit you’re complicit no matter what.
Because with the two party bias there are only two people capable of being in that office and not voting for either of them is still a vote in and of itself.
To be clear I don’t care who you vote for but you need to accept the reality that you are choosing one of the two whether you mean to or not.
That’s why Congress is the only realistic way we can pressure our political system to stop what’s currently going on. The government doesn’t stop at the president and plenty of our Congress supports it too which is what allows it to be the way it is.
Believe it or not US presidents have had blood on their hands for years. Even seemingly peaceful actions like the withdrawl from Afghanistan get blood everywhere. If elections could stop the bloodshed they would have.
The reality is voting does affect some things but its going to take far more than a vote to stop the killing.
Nobody here is stupid enough to fall for this bullshit… We all know how Trump feels about Israel, strongman leaders, and ethnostsates.
Trump takes office Jan. 20, and by the end of month, Netanyahu has a blank check to carry out his genocide.
But maybe that’s what you want…
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Are you just simply incapable of imagining that but much much worse? Like seriously. I get it dude, what the Israeli government is doing is fucking monstrous. And anyone paying attention to anything knows that not re-electcing Biden will make the nightmare several orders of magnitudes more awful.
That’s my whole point. Yeah it’s bad right now, but it can and will get worse if Trump is elected. This is a fact.
The problem with a two party system - if you are politically engaged enough that Biden’s stance on Israel is enough to change your vote, you probably also don’t align with any of Trump’s policies.
If you are a Democrat, your choices are:
- Accept that Biden is the lesser of two evils and vote for him regardless
- Somehow decide that all the explicitly stated policies that Trump is proposing are better than Biden’s support for Israel, and vote Republican
- Don’t vote - unless you live in a very, very blue state this is practically the same as voting Republican
- Vote 3rd party - essentially the same as not voting
America is not a democracy
Is no one going to acknowledge that a huge portion of the American electorate actually supports Israel’s genocide? Part of living in a democracy is accepting that official policy reflects some mixture of the views of the electorate. If the US electorate is still mixed in its view of Israel then the official US policy should be mixed as well (which it is).
I will use my vote to push for an end to the genocide, the release of hostages, and a stable 2-state solution. But I will not abandon core democratic values just because I find myself in the minority.
In addition, this article is about his “plans” to do this. Not about his actions. Every election cycle around this time the incumbent president puts out articles about his (because there’s been no her yet) “plans” to reclassify or otherwise loosen marijuana restrictions, but nothing ever happens.
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