:::::::USA Set to Reschedule Cannabis::::::: HHS Releases Recommendation Documents:::::::

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Congress has full authority on this issue. Thats all you need to know. Congress is intentionally choosing to NOT holding hearings. Congress is waiting to hear the decision or "Rulemaking" law which the DEA and Justice Deptartment are enventually going to make, I assume.

Why do you think that is?

I do like the fact that they are looking at some type of reform, something. Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, can do better. I am surprised he is involved in something like this unimportant reform, but I can see why if its something both supporters and opposition could agree on.

 

[mudballs]

Cuz they aren't in charge

 

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Governor is a very high power position. They have authority to veto any legislation and also to create Executive Orders.

The feds are holding back and allowing the states to make their own legislation, but its only the states that are willing to create legislation which is in conflict with federal cannabis laws.

Are they promoting lawlessness or what?

 

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Federal Marijuana And Drug Convictions Would Be Automatically Sealed Under New Bipartisan Senate Bill

Bipartisan senators have introduced a bill to mandate the automatic sealing of criminal records for certain non-violent federal marijuana and other drug convictions. The legislation—titled the “Clean Slate Act”—was filed by Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Rand Paul (R-KY) on Wednesday. It would...

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Meant to post this before. This is what my comment was referring to.

 

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1 month away from election day, and they reveal their position on this issue. They could have been debating it for the american public to hear and decide the past few months. Why wait until the last minute, political gain by avoiding upsetting the base over the issue?

Kamala Harris Says ‘We Need To Legalize’ Marijuana For First Time As Democratic Presidential Nominee

Vice President Kamala Harris says it’s time to legalize marijuana—marking the first time she has publicly discussed her position on cannabis since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. “I just feel strongly, people should not be going to jail for smoking weed,” she said in an interview...

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JD Vance’s Marijuana Legalization Opposition Is A ‘Notable’ Vulnerability, Leaked Trump Campaign Memo Says

As former President Donald Trump considered his options for a vice presidential running mate earlier this year, Sen. JD Vance’s (R-OH) marijuana record—and specifically his opposition to legalization—became a key point of interest for researchers vetting him, according to a leaked dossier on the...

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Feds Can Start Guiding State Marijuana Markets Before Congress Legalizes It, Authors Of Government-Commissioned Report Say

On the heels of a new government-commissioned report that calls on federal agencies to take a more active role in providing guidance to state-level marijuana markets, authors said in an online presentation on Thursday that officials need not wait for Congress to enact any cannabis reform...

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On the heels of a new government-commissioned report that calls on federal agencies to take a more active role in providing guidance to state-level marijuana markets, authors said in an online presentation on Thursday that officials need not wait for Congress to enact any cannabis reform legislation to start taking steps to better protect public safety and minimize harm.
“Most of the recommendations that we make…are not regulatory in nature,” Steven Teutsch, a public health researcher and professor in Southern California who co-edited the report, said in response to a question from Marijuana Moment.
“They require getting information, they require the funding to provide the research resources to do the work that we’ve identified,” he said—but most don’t require any action from federal lawmakers.

“Basically these agencies need to take up these roles, and they need to be allowed to do that,” Teutsch explained, urging what he described as “a change in the basic approach to the federal role in cannabis.”
Teutsch and others spoke as part of an event publicizing a new, 341-page report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) that takes a broad look at the U.S. marijuana market. It lays out a number of policy recommendations around health and safety matters, research, criminal justice and social equity.

For example, it calls on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop both targeted public health campaigns and establish “best practices for protecting public health” in states that have legalized marijuana.
It also advises that CDC begin centrally tracking state-level marijuana information more closely with “an adaptable public health surveillance system for cannabis, capturing a range of data from cannabis cultivation and product sales to use patterns and public health impacts,” and calls for a shift in research priorities to focus more on public health outcomes related to legalization, including efficacy of tests to determine cannabis impairment and health effects of new and emerging products.

“States have received little federal guidance on how to proceed regarding the health impact of cannabis on the public and communities,” the NASEM report says. “Other than two memoranda deferring to states”—guidance that was rescinded under the Trump administration—“the federal government has been noticeably missing from this dialogue.”
In fact, the federal government’s position on cannabis has actually set back state-level attempts to protect safety, the NASEM report asserts.
“Because cannabis is illegal federally, the federal government has had minimal involvement in cannabis policies within the states,” it notes. “The limited federal guidance on cannabis has focused on its sale—not on public health. Further, federal policies have complicated the efforts of state governments to develop cannabis policies that protect public health.”

 

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10 WEEKS AWAY FROM THE FIRST DEA HEARING ON POSSIBLY RESCHEDULING CANNABIS----DECEMBER 2, 2024

Does this article not underscore the need for congressional oversight of cannabis law reform?

Top Congressional Democrats Push DEA To ‘Swiftly’ Reschedule Marijuana And ‘Continue To Assess’ Full Legalization

The top Democrats on key House committees are calling for “swift action” from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to reschedule marijuana—and they want federal agencies to “continue to assess” whether further reform, including full descheduling of cannabis, “may be appropriate.” In a...

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[armedoldhippy]

anti-cannabis hold-outs in federal jobs do not want to aid the inevitable legalization. a point- Melinda Haag, a federal prosecutor in California refused to give ANY guidance to dispensaries there trying to stay open and on the good side of the federal govt, saying that she "was not going to advise them on the best ways to violate federal laws..." she did her dead level best to find an excuse to crack down on dispensaries regardless of how hard they tried to follow the rules. got away with it too, until she tried to bully the city of Oakland and Harborside ...

 

[Nannymouse]

OMG, if sugar had to go through those hoops. Or caffeine.

Also, it's just my personal opinion, but i would think that naturopaths and herbalists would have a better grasp of the nuances of Cannabis. Do they even teach the endocannabinoid system in med school, YET?

 

[armedoldhippy]

s. Do they even teach the endocannabinoid system in med school, YET?

i bet the GOOD ones do now. prob always have but with little/no emphasis on "supplementing the cannabinoids- why/why not"