• MdRuckus @lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This doesn’t decriminalize it or change its legal status at all. It literally just recognizes it for medicinal use for research purposes.

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      1 day ago

      And yet Obama couldn’t even do that even though he campaigned on doing it.

    • chosensilence@pawb.social
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      it lowers the focus on the drug though. cannabis has become a low priority for police and this will likely contribute to even lower. it could be used as an indication of inevitable decriminalization if congress needs something to pretend to agree about.

      it’s not changing much but it isn’t without benefits either.