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The main problem here is that weed is classified as a schedule 1 drug, meaning you'd have to declassify it. No politician wants to be seen as being soft on cri
by jimmywanger 9y ago
The main problem here is that weed is classified as a schedule 1 drug, meaning you'd have to declassify it.
No politician wants to be seen as being soft on crime or drugs.
Just like I think that living restriction distances for sex offenders (you can't live within 100 feet of schools) are bad, but nobody will come out in support.
- DonbunEf7 9y agoNobody? http://www.oregonvoices.org/ http://www.oregonvoices.org/
- int_19h 9y agoI dunno, we have plenty of politicians supporting legalization now. We even have one state where legalization was done via legislature. Also, interestingly, this is a very easy process, if we can get a president elected who is of that persuasion. The reason being, Congress vested DEA with the executive authority to reschedule drugs. So, in theory, the president could just direct them to do so. Congress can override and reinstate it, of course - but voting to re-criminalize it after it was legalized would also be a politically dangerous move.