Kamala Harris will host a marijuana reform event with Fat Joe
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The roundtable hosted by the vice president will be the administration's first public event on the issue since President Joe Biden talked about it in his State of the Union speech.
  • june@lemmy.worldEnglish
    217·
    1 year ago

    He’s already working on it. He’s asked HHS to reevaluate it and they have, affirming that it should be reclassified. It now rests with the DEA

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/health/marijuana-rescheduling-fda-review/index.html

    The president can’t just unilaterally reschedule a drug. He’s got to work within the framework of the controlled substances act, which he’s been doing and is now on the last step to reclassification.

    ETA: it also seems you didn’t read the article where it specifically states that Biden ordered the process to reschedule to begin?

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
      Banned from communityEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Has it been descheduled?

      Not “We’ve ordered the process into maybe one day considering thinking about opening public inquiry into limited implementation of a tentative probationary trial of…”

      If the answer is anything other than “yes” don’t pretend it’s an accomplishment. The only actual accomplishment so far has been needlessly prolonging the racist drug war.

      • june@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        So you’re not aware of how the process works within the legal framework and progress doesn’t matter if the results aren’t instant.

        Got it.