Feds drop Marijuana from schedule 1 narcotics down to schedule 3

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Funny that you can find a bottle of whiskey on every street corner, but something that actually helps is demonized and restricted. Alcohol destroys your body, weed just gives you the munchies. You'd think Little Debbie would be all for legalizing it.

I beg to differ. I both grow weed and drink liquor. I said I GROW weed. I never use the stuff. Can't, for medical reasons. See, weed speeds your heart up, and I'm on medicine to slow mine down. It would be counter-productive. The last time I smoked weed, it threw me into tachycardia and damn near killed me. Heart was racing for about 4 hours. Just about wore it out. I'm still not convinced that isn't what caused my a-fib.

The problem with weed these days is that it's way too damned stout. This ain't your grandpa's (or mine) weed any more. Weed used to run 2% to 4% THC back in the day, and that was just fine. Folks got to genetically tinkering with it, and now it runs 15% to upwards of 40% THC. That ain't even sane.

I grow it because I can, not because I smoke it. There ain't much I can do with it. I can't sell what I grow, 'coz that ain't allowed. I can't carry an ounce or more in public, 'cause that ain't allowed, either. I can't smoke it - see above. About all I can do is give it away for free to folks that need it for pain and such, so that's what I do with it. I've got two coffee jars of it left sitting here cured, just waiting for the giveaways. You KNOW they'll eventually make that illegal, too, if they ever get their shit together and get dispensaries going in this state. My "give away" might cut into some dispensary's budget, and therefore some politicians cut of the action... so they are bound to eventually make giving it away for free illegal, too.

Weed legalization is a racket... but you KNOW they were going to figure out how to racketize it, right? They ain't happy unless they are making bank off of someone else's back, off of someone else's misery.

In Virginia, in 2020, Democrats held the keys to all the power, so they tried to make all firearms illegal... but failed miserably. So, as a consolation prize, in 2021 they made weed legal. Kinda sorta. I feel sure it was more to piss off Republicans than it was to help anyone.

What they did was to make recreational use legal, and growing your own - up to 4 plants, that is - legal. What they DIDN'T do was create any avenues to purchase it legally for recreational use. Selling and buying remained illegal, and still do. So you can smoke it - if you can wrangle some.

They made growing it legal, up to a very limited point, but made NO provision for legally buying any seed to grow it. Nor is there any legal way to buy any clones to bypass the seed illegalities. See how that works? They'll set you up by telling you that you can grow your own, then come down on you when you do with a "where'd ya git them seeds, boy?" I bypassed that bullshit by using some bagseed. Didn't buy any seeds, so I didn't break the law, nor did I buy the bags the seed came from... so I didn't break that law, either. Free and clear.

This year, I ended up with just short of 2000 seeds off my plants. Since I can only grow 4 plants out of that seed, that leaves me with a lot of extra seeds. I can't sell those, either. So, I give 'em away, here and there... but only within the state. If they cross state lines, then THAT is illegal, too, and invites Federal involvement. I ain't about that, I tell ya!

So anyhow, the Democrats "legalized" weed, but left a hell of a mess of the law. it's like walking through a minefield trying to navigate it. Then they lost their asses in the next elections, and the Republicans took over. of course they weren't about to clean up that mess that the Democrats left, so that's where it sat for the next 4 years.

Then, this past election, the Democrats took the field again with a clean sweep. You'd think with that much power, they'd have a care to fix their own fuckups from before, right?

Wrong.

After promising to fix "affordability" here, and campaigning on "law and order", they came right out of the gates with nothing but more, new, novel, and oppressive taxes, and of course the perennial fight to disarm everyone in the state while at the same time setting various and sundry violent criminals loose on a defenseless population. Instead of fixing their cannabis fuckups, they decided to entirely ignore the mess they left last time, and concentrating on creating entirely new and exciting fuckups.

Instead of the promised "law and order", they decided to set violent criminals loose on their defenseless population (which they are busy disarming to insure they are defenseless... so's their pet criminals don't get injured criminalin', I reckon). Instead of addressing "affordability", they created more burdensome taxes to make any chance of affordability a thing of the past.

AND they entirely neglected to make weed really and truly legal. Not a peep from them about that.

Bastards. Folks need not wonder why I hate politicians, nor why I don't shrink back from calling them all exactly what they are - a bunch of goddamned useless lyin' bastards..

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Glad to have a board to discuss this topic. 

I microdose hemp/CBD for the chronic pain in my ankle, thats hemp with less than.03%THC, not looking to get "zooted" or "stoned to bone." Ive have to function 24/7 

All the states around me have less restrictive cannabis laws, MJ, and hemp. 

Right now, all I can legally use is less than .03% THC hemp-derived products

In my state, growing HEMP or MJ is illegal, MJ all forms are illegal except doctor-prescribed low-dose THC oils. One can order hemp flower and other hemp CBD products from out of state for now, till the new law kicks in. 

MJ is decriminalized in certain areas. 

In my state, the 4 alcohol and beer bottler companies fight against both hemp and MJ, so do the evangelicals. 

Those lobbies keep my state red, Ill take the chronic pain for a republican state every day and twice on Sundays 

Medical MJ and bottlers fight the hemp-derived product. 

IF the public fights for all access, the politicians will still bow to the most powerful lobby  

Farmers would love to grow industrial hemp, but for now, only a few do because of costs and strict regulations.

Even federal marijuana legalization could kill hemp access, there needs to be an all-encompassing cannabis legalization, but thats not happening. 

This is how state politicians get thier campaigns funded, till those palms get well greased. I expect to have less access to hemp and marijuana than before