Trump is privately mulling how to declare pot a less dangerous drug

[berniesandersmittens]

https://www.cnn.com/politics/trump-marijuana-reclassify-dea

Subscription only link, I can't read it either. However, I believe they will reclassify or maybe even decriminalize pot at the federal level in a desperate attempt to get poll numbers up.

How much you wanna bet the pedo-party does a 180 and gets behind marijuana reform?

Edit to add a story without paywall
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-weighs-reclassifying-marijuana-as-less-dangerous-drug/ar-AA1KbMHy

[newdeal2]

1. Dems should have done it before him

The country has mostly moved to the left on this issue.

[berniesandersmittens]

2. Yep

Now watch this MF get a "win" on this.

We dropped the ball.

[TnDem]

10. Agreed

Clinton should have been bolder on this....The "reefer madness" ship sailed decades ago.

Nobody care about weed anymore.

[Ocelot II]

5. Biden tried. See #4.

[leftstreet]

3. Medicare For All would sure help his poll numbers n/t

[Ocelot II]

4. Here's a link:

https://archive.is/2L7eD

There's money involved, of course: "Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO James Hagedorn told Fox Business last week that Trump has privately assured him and others “multiple times” that he plans to reclassify marijuana to a less controlled category of substances. The 157-year-old lawn and garden giant has become a leader in the nascent cannabis industry, with a fast-growing hydroponics business that Federal Election Commission records show donated $500,000 to a Trump-aligned super PAC last year."

Democrats tried to reclassify it: "In 2022, President Joe Biden ordered the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to review whether marijuana should be reclassified. The next year, HHS recommended moving marijuana to Schedule 3 and in 2024 the Department of Justice initiated a new rule to codify the proposal. Biden called the move “monumental” and a “major step.” But momentum stalled and Biden left office before the rule could be finalized. A hearing the DEA scheduled for the day after Trump took office was canceled and hasn’t been rescheduled."

[berniesandersmittens]

6. Thanks!

[republianmushroom]

7. Yes, polling numbers must go up.

[RandomNumbers]

8. Bingo.

they're grasping for any magic bullet.

Legalize pot! that'll do it. Sigh.

(it should be descheduled at least ... should have been a LONG time ago ... but there is no doubt this is about buying votes)

[Brainfodder]

9. So the family is getting into cannabis... got it...

See what ya'll can do for Sour Diesel, start strong.

[republianmushroom]

11. IMO some of the family left cannabis a long time ago.

If there is a dime to be made. The dude wants a share of it. Cartel boss's family was brought i this county by the present administration. This year.

[jmowreader]

12. I don't think it's to get his poll numbers up

He wants to deschedule cannabis for two reasons: he needs the cell space cannabis offenders are currently occupying to hold brown people, and he REALLY needs the federal tax revenue it will generate.