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[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 29 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

What Schedule III Doesn't Do:

  • It doesn't legalize cannabis federally

  • It doesn't allow you to legally possess or consume cannabis under federal law

  • It doesn't stop federal law enforcement from prosecuting you

  • It doesn't resolve banking issues for most cannabis businesses

  • It doesn't expunge the records of the millions arrested for cannabis offenses

  • It doesn't allow interstate commerce

  • It doesn't remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act

What Schedule III Does Do:

  • Removes IRS Code 280E, giving massive tax breaks to large cannabis corporations

  • Requires FDA approval for cannabis products (hello, Big Pharma!)

  • Subjects dispensaries and growers to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

  • Creates new federal crimes including selling prescription drugs without a license, misbranding, and illegal distribution

  • Effectively hands the cannabis market to pharmaceutical companies while crushing small operators

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I think its silly to expect legal states who were already disregarding federal law and supplanting it with their own state laws are suddenly going to start requiring prescriptions and FDA intevention for the same reason they won't limit refils the same was schedule 3 demands. No one collecting tax revenue is going to change whats already working. Your entire laundry list disregards that the states themselves are already not following federal law and federal law is the one slowly changing to reflect what states are already doing, not to impose a new order of marijuana laws.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works -2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Requires FDA approval for cannabis products (hello, Big Pharma!)

It's literally a drug and should absolutely require FDA approval. Preferably by one with competent leadership, but either way.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Then anything sold with ethanol should require FDA approval.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Of course it should.

But it's also very regulated regardless.