Good news but don't get too excited.

[SarahD]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/health/marijuana-rescheduling-fda-review/index.html

A federal scientific review found that cannabis shod be classified less dangerous than its current killer status. Of course, each state can ignore the findings and fill the prisons with pot smokers. Heaven help them if they're trans! The war on drugs persists in the same places we find Jim Crow voter registration laws, xenophobia, death penalty frenzy, and all the other throwback efforts.

[Silent Type]

1. Definitely should be reclassified. Is there anyone in prison for smoking pot, nowadays?

But other stuff is totally accurate.

[SarahD]

2. The feds quit entirely.

Nobody gets put in the federal pen for simple possession. Texas, on the other hand, has over 2o thousand in prison for simple possession. Three or four grams can get you several years. Insane.

[Silent Type]

3. Thanks. I do think 20,000 is way too much from what I've read. But even 300

is 300 too many.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2022/10/26/where-did-bidens-pardon-of-marijuana-charges-leave-the-hundreds-of-texans-imprisoned/

[multigraincracker]

4. Back in the 60s it was a lot more fun

when it was illegal. Not complaining, just not the same.

[GReedDiamond]

7. Yeah it was a lot more fun for me...

...in the early 70s when the cops beat the shit out of me and then charged me with 6 felonies because I had 1 ounce of "marijuana" aka cannabis.

That's the long story short of how fun it was.

[Tree Lady]

5. They say they won't change it until

after the public speaks. I will be surprised if the majority doesn't say this should have been done 50 years ago!

[rampartc]

6. we in la had a short 8 year break from the worst of this madness.

now our new maga governor is threatening to take my prescription.