• CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    While people aren’t really being federally prosecuted, the ban still does have far reaching effects like not being able to cross a state border while in possession, get a federal job, or open a bank account as a dispensary (except in some circumstances). Our state department of revenue had to spend millions of dollars to build a giant vault in order to collect millions of dollars in cash from the tax revenue.

    I just find it frustrating since I think there’s plenty of political will to just end this draconian prohibition nationwide relatively easily, but nobody seems willing to step up to the plate regardless of party.

    • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      nobody seems willing to step up to the plate regardless of party.

      I mean, this is the exact thing I’m talking about. Things are actually happening, but it’s the federal government and glaciers are speedy in comparison. The Department of Health and Human Services is, right now, doing work to fully explore rescheduling marijuana. A bill was passed recently that makes it substantially easier for researchers to study marijuana for medical purposes by reducing legal barriers.

      Progress is slow, and I completely understand and agree that it’s frustrating, but that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening.