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Its current classification under the Controlled Substances Act places marijuana alongside potentially deadly and highly addictive drugs, including heroin and LSD.
A White House official affirmed the president is considering changing the federal government’s classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug, which is reserved for drugs with no known medical use and that have a high potential for abuse.
“The only interest guiding the president’s policy decision is what is in the best interest of the American people,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told CNN in a prepared statement. More
Or at least put Pharmies and Alcohol in the same group.
Whole thing is a joke.
Drug test Elected official’s.
Modern pot is hundreds of times stronger than the sh!t we smoked in college decades ago.
No. It’s a widely used drug whose impacts are not well understood, especially on people who tend to use it the most and whose brains are still developing. Its overuse is lowering IQs and creating generations of dumbasses. Understand it first then decide.
Absolutely not.
Sick of it being everywhere as it IS.
No need to make it worse.
@DBad:
They already did that. You want them to do it again, do you? The authoritahs decided first when they made it illegal and then a Schedule I drug, didn’t they?
It’s no worse than alcohol. And Prohibition didn’t work.
I am concerned that marijuana is being pushed by those in control who are trying to make us all brain-dead zombies.I have seen a number of videos (Border control, police, etc) where young people have “medical marijuana cards” which could be had by almost anybody with no real problem. What is there problem that they need this “medication?”
Perhaps if there was a potency threshold for what is legal. I think it has many more problems than people are willing to let on, but those problems are being swept under the rug so as to make people more accepting of it.
…wait, is this just a way to make Hunter’s lie on his 4473 not matter?
…its been “legal” in Colorado the longest.
How’s THAT going?
https://iotwreport.com/denver-cant-fund-police-but-it-can-find-money-to-host-the-2030-gay-games/
…rocky mountain high indeed…
SNS: Didn’t Colorado, among other places, find out that it is cheaper to buy the stuff illegally than it is to by the legal stuff? Of course, when government makes something legal, they tax the snot out of it and expect people to go along with it.
Back in the ’90s, Washington State greatly increased the tax on cigarettes. They expected two things; one, that they would bring in more revenue to offset medical costs and two, people would cut back on smoking.
All they did was send people into Oregon and Idaho and onto Indian Reservations. Technically, only Indians are allowed to buy on booze and tobacco on reservations, but while they may be able to enforce it on booze easily, enforcing it for tobacco was next to impossible. As it turned out, state tobacco revenues dropped by something like half while smoking rates were little changed.
Leave it to government to really screw things up.
No.
I agree with geeknerd that the pot now is far stronger than the shit that I smoked 50 years ago. And also, with SNS, absolutely not. I quit smoking dope 50 years ago on Labor Day weekend 1975 by the grace of God and have not been tempted to ever smoke pot again. It didn’t do me a damn bit of good back then and I refuse to be another dumbass baby bummer who never grew up and are still smoking dope. Dope was for dopes back then and it still is now, and I am not a dope nor want to be ever again as I have grown older and wiser. Wash, state and all the other numb nuts states that have legalized pot have done their citizens no good by making them perpetual stoners dependent on govt. Soma anyone?
Well first of all it’s not the same buzz it was back in the 70’s or 80’s. I’ve read reports that actually put some of it right up there with LSD. Not to mention it’s a gateway drug. So I say oh hell no.
Absolutely not.
Have U ever heard the word Age-Out
Even Willie Nelson has decided it is no good and has given it up.
Pogo
Sunday, 10 August 2025, 19:55 at 7:55 pm
“Even Willie Nelson has decided it is no good and has given it up.:
…Toby Keith, RIP, learned before Willie did, apparently from Willie himself…
https://youtu.be/cJxl7FEdhDw?si=D3qgh3f5dQJSSYcu
Nope. People today are already stupid enough without it.
As a 25 year sober alcoholic, absolutely not. I got sober from alcohol youngish and used what we called the “marijuana maintenance program” until I just said f it and drank again (and used) for another 10 years. My motto now is “no alcohol, no drugs, nothing that affects you from the neck up” It hard for some people with real issues that do require prescription for anxiety and such. They often have a hard time with sobriety. Hell, I even have to stay away from NyQuil and Sudafed. They might trigger me. We even say “non-alcoholic beer is for non-alcoholics.”
Yes, take marijuana off the list and put the democratic party in place of it.
Just like alcohol there are some people who can’t handle it or regulate themselves and there are some people who can enjoy it in moderation and find it to be relaxing. Frankly I say alcohol has the potential to be far more dangerous to the user and to those around him or her. I work hard all day and I vape THC in the evening. The potency is consistent with each vape cartridge allowing for moderation and control. I have never hallucinated on pot or THC vapes.
I’m not necessarily disagreeing with continued restrictions, but I am disagreeing with the opinion that pot nowadays is dramatically more powerful than that of decades ago. Granted, if you were buying a $10 bag of weed it is way different, but when I was living in Alaska in the 70’s and 80’s ,the buds from Hawaii were just as powerful, and because they were grown outdoors they tasted better. It’s been several years since I’ve smoked anything, but if I was to roll a joint it would be outdoor grown Hawaiian! Restrictions are not a bad idea. Just my dumbass opinion.
I don’t care what they say marijuana has always been a gateway drug.
@Uncle Al – No I don’t WANT them to look at it again. The crap is bad news. But, if DJT is inclined to delist it, I say slow down and look at it again. An honest review will show that it is a dangerous drug.
Beer was my gateway drug
When I worked as an office manager for a doctor, he hired a full-time nurse. She seemed ok for the first few weeks, but I started wondering if something was wrong.
She forgot she was running a test in the lab until it was too late. She left a patient in the exam room for some time before telling the doctor he was ready.
I had trouble reading her notes in order to record them.
Finally, I asked my doctor if he had noticed something off about her. He sighed and said yes. He had already talked to her and she told him that she had smoked weed throughout college, but didn’t anymore.
A month later, she finally fessed up to still smoking. He fired her that day.
I say NO. You never know who has your life in their brain addled hands.
I smoked the shit for over 20 years. There has always been hay-grade and one-hit-wonder. It is a gateway drug to eating chips.
Nah, man. It’s all good. I cud be a brane sturgin wif no probs. Like, man, I cud disext, diesekt, uh… cut peeps no prob like no prob baby. Ain’t nuffin to worries bout when i be flyin. U just para, paira… sheeeet, U be skeered ova nuttin dood. i onli have 5 or 6 reks a weak. fool!
The average pick-up truck weighs from 4,000 to 6,000 pounds. The average passenger vehicle is 2,700 to 4,000 pounds.
I already share the road with people who text, put on make-up, interact with their onboard computers, and who don’t check their mirrors making a lane change.
The odds that people get behind the wheel drunk and impaired from pot is already too high. Layer the average age of pot smokers on top of that — kids whose brains aren’t even fully developed and don’t think they’ll ever die — and it’s too much.
Plus, weed is still such a valuable commodity to the cartel drug trade that it helps fund and support all the other cartel enterprises, including all the tragedy, mayhem, and violence that goes with it.
Here in California where pot has been legalized, it seems there are now more marijuana dispensaries than liquor stores in the cities. The dispensaries are allowed to have billboards, whereas similar advertising for cigarettes or alcohol is prohibited. They have anti-smoking commercials where they accuse big tobacco of marketing towards children (huh? when? where?), meanwhile the pot stores are selling pot infused candies–gummie bears, gummie worms, lollipops, etc. with impunity. Despite children mistaking them for candy and ingesting them on the regular. Make it make sense.
No!! Marijuana is very, very insidious. It’s a destroyer and in very sublte ways. I smoked enough of it to know – and that was decades ago, before it became super-pot. Marijuana is the democrat party dream substance: it will lull a stoner nation into slavery.
It’s funny she if these kids think mj is a good treatment for anxiety when it makes them paranoid.
There is absolutely no upside to legalizing social pathologies. What the objective is isn’t hard to comprehend if you have had the opportunity to have observed the progression from there being a pot subculture to it being woven into the social fabric. Everything about the progression here in Washington has been a sham. From the “medical marijuana” bullshit on, it’s all been based lies.
If dope and alcohol are to be decriminalized/legal, the libertarian in me says fine –for ‘recreational use’. But the survivalist in me says to use the tax money from these substances to fund good drug and sobriety tests and enforce negative consequences of failing them, to keep users off the road, out of the workplace, anywhere people need to have their faculties about them.
The more liberty a society tolerates or embraces, the more protections it needs from the negative results of eejits exercising their rights.
I think the precident was set with Roe V Wade. Since this is not a federally enumerated responsibility of the Federal Government, it should devolve to the individual states.