Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday called on the federal government to move “as quickly as possible” to change the way it officially classifies marijuana, saying that “nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.”

“I cannot emphasize enough that they need to get to it as quickly as possible,” Harris said. “We need to have a resolution based on their findings and their assessment. This issue is stark when one considers the fact that on the schedule currently, marijuana is considered as dangerous as heroin ― as dangerous as heroin ― and more dangerous than fentanyl, which is absurd, not to mention patently unfair.”

Marijuana is currently listed as a Schedule 1 drug by the Drug Enforcement Administration. That classification designates it one of the most dangerous drugs possible, with no medicinal uses. Other substances in the same category include heroin, ecstasy and LSD. Marijuana advocates have been pushing for years for the federal government to either reschedule marijuana to a different category or deschedule it entirely.

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    8 months ago

    Ok… so how do we run people genuinely interested in fixing it? How do we make this not how shit goes?

    Undo citizens united would be a great first step…

    Something that the majority of Dem voters agree with.

    Without those donations and the obligations they come with, neoliberals would stop winning primary elections, and the ones still in office would stop having a reason to oppose progress.

    I didn’t read anything else you typed after that, because if you didn’t understand that already, I don’t see how anything else you could have said was in any way relevant

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      8 months ago

      Just undo case law.

      Not very wise in the ways of the legislative beach, are we?

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      Ah… so you’re not interested in discourse. I see.

      Citizens united was bullshit and never should have gone the way it did, but more could be done.

      And as another user mentioned… undoing settled case law is a terrible way of doing things… look at RvW…