It’s another episode of Confidence Interval, where we make a persuasive case for a hot take we’ve been hearing … and then reveal how confident we really feel about the idea. Here, senior writer Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux makes the case that marijuana won’t be federally legalized in the next four years, even though Democrats have control of Congress and the White House.
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Reschedule to level 2. Then it can be prescribed by an MD.
this means it will happen now
I think you can be fairly confident in federal decriminalisation passing before 2024, or even 2022. That’s more than popular enough. Appeals to democrats as progressive legislation, appeals to republicans as legislation devolving power to states.
I don’t picture all 51 jurisdictions making it fully legal on a state level though. This is a country with Utah in it.
What a colossal waste of time, and monetary and human resources, marijuana prohibition is. An excellent example of how our government is no longer representative, no longer represents the popular will. Quit wasting all of our time and decriminalize & legalize across the board, recreational and medical and any other arbitrary category I’m forgetting
Voters opposed to legalization are more likely to make this a voting issue than the pro side is. That is why voter initiatives have been successful, but legislation elsewhere has not.