Anything short of completely descheduling it is an injustice.
under schedule 3 it’ll be easier to obtain than adderal.
i know the young folks think it should be an all or nothing solution but the truth is the country as a whole rarely moves that way with so many contending views.
this is how you change those views against it, by removing the demonization over time in phases.
this gives time for the private prison systems and big pharma and big alcohol/tobacco to get their ducks in a row for the changes that will surely arrive.
when the people who believe that it is the worst drug ever see what a difference in perception can do as the government no longer demonizes it, that’s when it’ll be fully legalized.
shit sucks but with over half the country filled with fucking idiots, you really need to be able to crawl before you can walk or even run. this is a step in the right direction and i’ve been around long enough to see what a fucking foot in the legal door this is.
https://www.dea.gov/drug-information/drug-scheduling
The DEA Drug Scheduling list is a complete fucking mess. However, by definition alone I would place Marijuana in Schedule 3 or 4.
If you didn’t know, it wasn’t that long ago (2014) that hydrocodone was a schedule 3. Imagine that shit.
It can stay scheduled. But it should be schedule 4 - low potential for abuse, low risk of dependence.
But that is objectively false… it’s at least a moderate risk for both abuse and dependence.
Considering you cannot die from overdose or withdrawal I very much disagree.
That can’t be true. There must be some level high enough that can kill you.
There are absolutely withdrawal symptoms for cannabis use. Lethality is not the criteria used to determine abuse or dependence potential.
He didn’t say no withdrawal symptoms, but in any event, that’s not relevant. Caffeine and nicotine both have withdrawal symptoms comparable in severity. Now if you want to discuss withdrawal from benzodiazepines or alcohol there is a lot of work there. Why aren’t they scheduled as aggressively? Because of the medical applications and from appetite stimulation in oncology patients to ptsd, marijuana has justifiable benefits.
It is not physically addictive. If your life sucks and you use it to cope, you’ll be cranky when you stop, same as if you used trash TV to cope but your cable goes out.
You cannot overdose on pot. You can try, and the worst that will happen is that you’ll fall asleep. It is not dangerous on its own.
Don’t like the schedule 4 distinction? Fine, pick another. But having it set to schedule 1, same as heroin and PCP, is insane and 100% politically motivated.
It is not physically addictive. If your life sucks and you use it to cope, you’ll be cranky when you stop, same as if you used trash TV to cope but your cable goes out.
I see you have meet an ex of mine. Totally useless and unable to do anything after work except watch 3 hours of the same TV shows she grew up with. No, we didn’t break up over this. It was mildly annoying not relationship breaking.
It is physically addictive.
Schedule 1 is bullshit but schedule 4 is too lax… schedule 3 would be the best fit… also on the topic, benzos should absolutely be ranked higher than 4.
Is THC the main ingredient in Soma?
