Because the DEA doesn't have the legal authority to do that. Congress laid out the criteria for scheduling drugs in the Controlled Substances Act and any reasonable person would say marijuana meets the criteria for at least schedule 5. Congress needs to do what they did for alcohol and nicotine and pass a law that specifically excludes marijuana.
12 signed it, headline ignores Bernie
Common Bernie Sanders W
I assume most are for rescheduling, or respecting state's choice, or maybe they're more concerned with systemic inequality and foreign genocide with US armaments.
Also, though, the Biden Administration has been pushing for the DEA to reschedule marijuana for like 3 years...
more concerned with systemic inequality and foreign genocide
...what in this prevents them from doing their job and actually forwarding a pretty objectively good bill?
Don't you see? They must only think about one issue at a time!
Unironically, yes. They can't be doing everything all at once when it takes their full power to even force topics to be discussed on the senate floor and write proposals. Every second that Bernie Sanders talks about weed, for example, would stop him from putting up pictures of Palestinian children begging for water.
Their time? What do you think the senate is, they all just say whatever is on their mind and everybody votes for or against it on the spot?
or respecting state’s choice
I'd love to hear the logic of how federal descheduling takes away a states choice...
The states have demonstrably had the choice to decriminalize Marijuana since 1973, not doing so by now can be seen as their choice to keep it a restricted substance.
EDIT: To be clear, I'm explaining their thoughts on the subject, not agreeing with them.
If a state has zero laws about cannabis federal schedule makes it illegal
And many of the states that haven't legalized use the federal schedule as rational.to not legalize.
If they want them illegal, they can pass a law making them illegal. That's how it's supposed to be work.
Not states having to legalize something on a state level because the federal government claims it's one of the most dangerous drugs in the country, but won't actually enforce people flagrantly breaking the law...
Have you ever tried reading anything about this? Like, ever?
He said "decriminalize", not "legalize".
No, clearly I've never read anything ever, and in fact that 1973 date I gave in the previous comment was a random guess. /Very-Big-Sarcasm
Descheduling is respecting the states' choices. Legalization at the national level doesn't automatically make it legal in states.
Why are only 11 senators in support of this?
Because the rest are old farts with reefer madness
That's a good answer
Because the DEA doesn't have the legal authority to do that. Congress laid out the criteria for scheduling drugs in the Controlled Substances Act and any reasonable person would say marijuana meets the criteria for at least schedule 5. Congress needs to do what they did for alcohol and nicotine and pass a law that specifically excludes marijuana.
12 signed it, headline ignores Bernie
Common Bernie Sanders W
I assume most are for rescheduling, or respecting state's choice, or maybe they're more concerned with systemic inequality and foreign genocide with US armaments.
Also, though, the Biden Administration has been pushing for the DEA to reschedule marijuana for like 3 years...
...what in this prevents them from doing their job and actually forwarding a pretty objectively good bill?
Don't you see? They must only think about one issue at a time!
Unironically, yes. They can't be doing everything all at once when it takes their full power to even force topics to be discussed on the senate floor and write proposals. Every second that Bernie Sanders talks about weed, for example, would stop him from putting up pictures of Palestinian children begging for water.
Their time? What do you think the senate is, they all just say whatever is on their mind and everybody votes for or against it on the spot?
I'd love to hear the logic of how federal descheduling takes away a states choice...
The states have demonstrably had the choice to decriminalize Marijuana since 1973, not doing so by now can be seen as their choice to keep it a restricted substance.
EDIT: To be clear, I'm explaining their thoughts on the subject, not agreeing with them.
If a state has zero laws about cannabis federal schedule makes it illegal
And many of the states that haven't legalized use the federal schedule as rational.to not legalize.
If they want them illegal, they can pass a law making them illegal. That's how it's supposed to be work.
Not states having to legalize something on a state level because the federal government claims it's one of the most dangerous drugs in the country, but won't actually enforce people flagrantly breaking the law...
Have you ever tried reading anything about this? Like, ever?
He said "decriminalize", not "legalize".
No, clearly I've never read anything ever, and in fact that 1973 date I gave in the previous comment was a random guess. /Very-Big-Sarcasm
Descheduling is respecting the states' choices. Legalization at the national level doesn't automatically make it legal in states.