The best way to remove it from the schedule is to dismantle prison slave labor. Financial incentives for imprisoning people will always lead here and are immoral. However, I offer a false solution, because I don’t have a way to implement it.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Progress in government is made in steps. Scheduling to 3 allows research. Research that will show it’s no worse than alcohol. Then we push for removal from the schedule.
isles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ryannathans@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Research already shows this
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe. But there aren’t more countries than America that our government would listen to.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Not to mention 38 states have legalized it for medical use. What is there to study with regard to removing the legal penalties federally?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also, are there any studies supporting it being banned? As I understand it, it was a PR campaign and moral panic that lead to its ban on the first place, not anything rational.
aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The research at the time said not to ban it because it is reasonably safe for consumption and banning it would cause social unrest and distrust of the government. Check out “A Signal of Misunderstanding: The First Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse”, a report from a commission created by Richard Nixon with the passage of the 1969 Narcotics Act.
na_th_an@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wish I could agree that we need studies to convince our rational leaders in government to make the rational actions based on available evidence, because that’s what drives changes in government.