Appropriate? Maybe, in some cases. But certainly not "safe". There's no non-cynical explanation for banning marijuana at the federal level (an effective and non

Appropriate? Maybe, in some cases. But certainly not "safe". There's no non-cynical explanation for banning marijuana at the federal level (an effective and non-addictive pain mangement tool), while allowing addictive opioids. The cynical explanation is that this is done specifically to let the Sacklers of the world (rather than some farm hippies in WA) take the profits (and then offer the former government officials do-nothing jobs paying millions of dollars a year). As an aside, I wonder why, in spite of abundant and blindingly obvious evidence, people in the US have a hard time believing that deep seated corruption exists in US government. When something gets done (or, as the case may be, not done) by e.g. Russian government everyone in Russia knows money is changing hands under the table, in 100% of the cases. What makes anyone in the US think it's any different here? This case in particular is an obvious mockery of justice, and yet we have people on this forum rejecting this reality and substituting it with their own.