Biden only supported legalized medical marijuana, and to his credit, he did actually start the process to do that. He order rescheduling to schedule 3 which basically legalizes medical marijuana. It should go into effect around December as the DEA has dragged out the process

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    can’t have something you can grow in your backyard replacing all kinds of expensive pills now, can we?

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      It’s actually an interesting conundrum. I have several relatives in the medical field and they would love to prescribe a cannabis or psilocybin treatment but cannot due to legal blocks, so they have to write an Rx for the pills. Assuming we don’t go full Gilead in the next week the research and development of natural treatments should continue, a lot of doctors are subscribing to the “plants not pills” avenue

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      Don’t follow what you are saying? Legalizing recreationally is also legalizing it medically

      Even Biden supported medical marijuana and he already started the process to legalize that (via rescheduling)

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        What he’s saying is that a lot of the forces against recreational legalization are also against medical legalization, and moreover that a lot of the “moral crusade” against it is actually just cynical anti-competitive business tactics.

        Or, [sigh], maybe that’s just what I’m reading into it and he had no deeper point to make.

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        Legalizing recreationally is also legalizing it medically

        but legalizing medically is NOT legalizing recreationally

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          Yes? Harris is saying she wants it legalized medically and recreationally. She’s supporting full legalization here and she has earlier in the campaign

          I still don’t follow what you are trying to say? Unless you are just concuring with Harris?

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              Sorry it’s hard to tell over text sometimes. Have had plenty of fully genuine conversations with people saying things like this who are not being sarcastic