Maybe take a shower, grab a fresh cup of coffee and circle back in a few hours to see if it still checks out.
Late to this thread so this may have been covered, but what I was most surprised about, and did not anticipate, is how much organized crime has stayed involved even after legalization. Different criminal organizations, some Chinese, but OC nonetheless. Not talking about the legalized organized crime that is modern corporate best practices, but real crime. Surprising.
No need to shift the goal posts or create straw man arguments. My initial post to the thread was in response to a previous post in the thread stating cannabis is a Schedule I and my words were based on that. Whether Abbott or DeSantis pushed for legalization has no bearing on the Schedule I classification by the DEA.
Supposed scandal that I am not sure should be a scandal. DEA says their opinions on rescheduling marijuana in terms of health were bypassed. My first thought is why does an enforcement agency have an opinion on the health implications of a substance. They might be competent on societal effects, although the conflict of interest in losing budget dollars from an enforcement agency losing something to enforce seems to overwhelm that consideration. Would love more elaboration on this shorthand legal summary. Pending more confirmation, this sounds like a misleading leak by those who mindset and budget interests are antithetical to the proposed change, nothing more “DEA has not yet made a determination as to its views of the appropriate schedule for marijuana,” reads a sentence tucked 13 pages into Garland’s 92-page order last Thursday outlining the Biden administration proposal to shift pot from its current Schedule I alongside heroin and LSD to the less tightly regulated Schedule III with such drugs as ketamine and some anabolic steroids. Internal records accompanying the order indicate the DEA sent a memo to the Justice Department in late January seeking additional scientific input to determine whether marijuana has an accepted medical use, a key requirement for reclassification. But those concerns were overruled by Justice Department attorneys, who deemed the DEA’s criteria “impermissibly narrow.” Several current and former DEA officials told the AP they believe politics may be at play, contending the Justice Department is moving forward with the marijuana reclassification because President Joe Biden wants to use the issue to woo voters in his reelection campaign and wasn’t willing to give the DEA time for more studies that likely would have dragged beyond Election Day. Those officials also noted that while the Controlled Substances Act grants the attorney general responsibility for regulating the sale of dangerous drugs, federal law still delegates the authority to classify drugs to the DEA administrator. Top US drug agency a notable holdout in Biden’s push to loosen federal pot restrictions Top US drug agency a notable holdout in Biden’s push to loosen federal pot restrictions - Tampa Bay Times
And the typically right wing AP is a willing conduit without an editor that asks the obvious - “are they correct legally they should have input?”
It seems like the pot of today is WAAYYY stronger than back in the day in school. You could smoke a whole joint and it wouldn't lay you out and it didn't stink for days. My wife was parked at a Best Buy and came back and the area around the parking spot reeked of pot and then it got into her car vents and her car smelled like pot for 3 weeks. I would like to go about my business and not have to smell it wherever I go. I've even smelled it going down the highway when a car zooms past me. Might as well go around and fart in people's faces, but at least that dissipates. But I don't care about legalization, same as alcohol. And there are varying levels of booze too from Everclear down to Miller Lite.
I saw DeSantis recently said he doesn't want Florida to smell like marijuana. Do people think the smell of marijuana is stronger and more unpleasant than the smell of cigarettes or cigars? I actually enjoy an occasional cigar but would never smoke one in my house because the smell or cigars lingers for a long time, and that stale smell is not good IMO. Are people who have medical marijuana cards in Florida are allowed to smoke it in public? I'm not sure what the olfactory objection has to do with whether it should remain recreationally criminalized. Presumably, governments could ban smoking marijuana walking down the street in the same way they can ban open containers of alcohol in certain places.
You can basically smoke it in public, yeah. Even before medical, you could smell it in public at any kind of festival or concert. I think this is just culture war stuff, like that's what he thinks Portland or Seattle smell like 24/7 or something.
