Cannabis is currently classified along with drugs like heroin and LSD. The administration is expected to reschedule it in a category that includes steroids and Tylenol with codeine.
    • GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 months ago

      Do you have a source for that? As far as I can tell he supported decriminalization and allowing individual states to legalize but I don’t see any sources where he supported full legalization.

    • Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      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.

      • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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        4 months ago

        Yep and then you’ll get a bunch of people arguing “well the president doesn’t really have much power to change things” in response to the criticism before immediately flipping to “well if [my candidate] doesn’t win the next election, fire and brimstone will rain down from the sky and it will be hell on earth because the other guy will have limitless power!”

        This is an argument coined by fascists that is now being used by party loyalists in both the Republican and Democratic parties because they want to maintain the status quo. This is what happens when you keep voting for one of two right-wing parties.

    • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      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

  • Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    "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."

    • MLK jr