Comment on If cannabis gets rescheduled to III, how can it ever get the state - federal differences resolved when it comes to the recreational market?

• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe. But there aren’t more countries than America that our government would listen to.

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• 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?

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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