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Re:US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana by EA-3167 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @04:37PM (#40216021)
You seem to believe that a move from Schedule I (totally illegal to sell) to Schedule III (legal to sell under some circumstances) is going to hit the reset button on state laws around cannabis. That seems unlikely, the states are already ignoring the feds on this, this is just a step the feds are taking to bring the federal legal landscape closer to the state landscape. The major changes will simply be, as others have stated, to make it possible to travel with cannabis (with an Rx) and for dispensaries and others to use FDIC insured banking and transfer mechanisms.

Other than that, nothing is likely to change unless states walk back the laws they've already passed.

Remember, it's already illegal on the federal level for these businesses to exist, and that isn't stopping them.

Re:US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana by bbarn on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @04:58PM (#40216259)
Once there is a framework for legal sale, and regulations around it, you think all these states will continue to just not comply?
Re:US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana by EA-3167 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @05:07PM (#40216352)
They've been thumbing their nose at more more serious laws until now, why would a downgrade in consequences suddenly make them burn down industries that bring in billions?
Re:US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana by hughesjj on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @05:13PM (#40216425)
Imo the states get far too much revenue from recreational taxes and I imagine the Fed doesn't want that to change either.

It's really just a few dinosaur pearl clutchers that are preventing it from being descheduled entirely