Guessing weed business would boom, and government gain a tonne of tax, which Trump would take credit for.
So no. Can't see him doing it.
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Big tax cash cow here in Canada, that's for sure.
Good old "Nothing will fundamentally change" Joe.
Hey now at least he helped start a genocide.
What a legacy.
slavers gonna slave
that is our legacy
thank you for starting one in America too.
He was never going to do it and never will.
Biden, smiling as he puts on shades and eats ice cream: "No. Peace, I'm out."
I mean, everyone said he was too old to do the job.
Crime Bill Biden ran out the clock on purpose. He never had any intention to reschedule cannabis.
NONE.
Y'all still haven't learned that the US president isn't god king, hu? He can't just do shit by fiat.
You still haven't learned that US legal precedent is God king. New rules dropped, presidential acts are all the rage. Biden just has to say those two words and he can regulate how long your ball hair is allowed to be.
All that needs to happen is for SCOTUS to agree.
Should be easy 👍
Doesn't fuckin matter. Let SCOTUS mull it over for years. Drag it out through court for 4 years to see if he was allowed to do what he did do. Someone tries to reverse what he did? Fire them, let SCOTUS figure out for 4 years if he was allowed to do that too. Convince 20 lawyers to fight it until they are literally disbarred. I'm sick of democrats fussing over decorum and tradition and just giving this country away because they're afraid of some vague rules. Make shit up. Not allowed to fire that person? Spin up some special cabinet packed with cronies and make that person report to them now. Literally anything. But biden won't do shit. He's taking a fucking nap, leave him alone.
The only meaningful change for this would be via legislation, otherwise trump can just as easily undo it the same day.
Edit: looks like the process is much more complicated and actually Biden already started the process at the beginning of this year (April): https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/update-deas-efforts-reschedule-cannabis-what-you-need-know-2024-09-11/ , I don't understand this article
Edit 2: the letter is actually asking him to try to hurry the process up (the article from September that I linked says there supposed to be hearing scheduled this Monday (Dec 2nd)). It is very misleading (as you can see from the comments), because it implies Biden is just ignoring this issue completely.
https://lee.house.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_biden_admin_re_marijuana.pdf
He actually started the process to review what it was scheduled as to get it changed in 2022. It like everything else surrounding our government takes forever.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-submits-proposed-regulation-reschedule-marijuana
Everything with government doesn’t have to be slow, but congress wrote this bill so that two successive presidents would have to keep pursuing it.
It like everything else surrounding our government takes forever.
Unless of course it's something he wants to do, like sell weapons for an ongoing genocide. Then all bureaucracy evaporates into nothingness.
His hands are untied when he wants them to be.
Look, I get that you’re trying to make a point, but this is like complaining your parents were able to pay the mortgage every week but not buy you a new bike. One is planned, budgeted, agreed upon by all parties. The other is something you want, that takes time and planning which has yet to take place.
Giving away arms to a genocide isn't... budgeted.
What line item(s) can you point to for "Palestinian Genocide Budget"?
There's literally a law on the books that says he MUST stop arms transfers to Israel, since the UN has declared an ongoing genocide.
The other is something you want, that takes time and planning which has yet to take place.
One is something Biden wanted, and the other is rescheduling cannabis.
So the genocide was planned and agreed upon before hand?
This is the type of level-headed, honest discussion I came here from reddit for.
As far as centrists are concerned, genocide is as vital as shelter.
looks like the process is much more complicated and actually Biden already started the process at the beginning of this year
Right. He waited until it couldn't be completed until after the end of his term. On purpose. He ran out the clock. On purpose.
He never wanted to reschedule cannabis and dragged his feet until he didn't have to.
Isn't it already ruled he has presidential immunity? Why isn't he doing more? I understand he has some time but like... I hope there's at least a "welcome package" for trump. I have no faith in anything anymore
Its only immune if the supreme court deems it an official act. This court will not give him the same leeway as they will Trump.
Yeah. All faith in democrats wanting to do the BAREST MINIMUM to make a difference is flat out gone. Both sides apparently want the poor dead or in prison. Republicans are just gonna make it happen faster.
The time to do that really would have been before the election... He did reschedule it, but that can be undone day one. I honestly think the fascist voters would credit Trump. I've heard them say "already things are getting better" with no hint of irony.
He did reschedule it
He did not. Cannabis is still Schedule I.
Damn you're right, they did start the process, but the DEA pushed it back to 2025 after originally expecting it this year.
The DEA whose head Biden appointed decided to wait until the next president could block it?
I wonder if Biden ran it by Joe Manchin or the senate parliamentarian first.
He started the multi-year process to do it.
When he knew it was too late to finish it during his term. He ran out the clock.
So your options were re-elect the team who are following the process but started late and put and end to federal prosecutions while he was in office, or re-elect the guy whose last AG was 100% against any reform attempts and actively prosecuted offenders.
But no, go ahead and tell me how Trump was the better option here. This is why the republicans win. Everything on the left is a purity test where we endlessly belittle our politicians for not delivering everything all at once on day one, while the right makes plans that span decades to take power. Look at the Federalist Society. It took them decades to arrange for the moment where they would have decisive control over the judicial branch so they could crime with impunity. But tell me how Biden not completing a five year process in four years was too slow.
or re-elect the guy whose last AG was 100% against any reform attempts and actively prosecuted offenders.
Um.... Harris jailed loads of people, and opposed reform efforts too. For weed.
So your options were re-elect the team who are following the process but started late and put and end to federal prosecutions while he was in office, or re-elect the guy whose last AG was 100% against any reform attempts and actively prosecuted offenders.
My options were Harris and Trump. I voted for Harris.
But no, go ahead and tell me how Trump was the better option here.
He wasn't.
Criticism of Biden isn't advocacy for Trump. NEITHER OF THEM IS EVEN RUNNING. THE ELECTION IS OVER. But since centrists can't defend their constant deliberate uselessness at anything other than arming a genocide, they have to pretend that any and all criticism of Drug War Biden is Trump support.
You don't have to carry water for him anymore. It's over.
Maybe Democrats should have their own Federalist Society then. They're the ones running the party and if they can't implement the sort of multi-decade program that it takes to produce real change then maybe they're shit at their jobs.
Their jobs are to prevent real change, not implement it. They're fantastic at their jobs.
I worry that they'll just open a can of worms and fuck up our farm bill access.