DEA CANNABIS RESCHEDULING

PUBLIC COMMENT VIEWER

Here is a random public comment on the rescheduling of cannabis to Schedule III from Rebecca Powell.
Dear Drug Enforcement Administration, Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the DEA’s proposed rule change, which would reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). I am writing to express my concerns with this proposed rule. While I appreciate the Administration’s recognition that marijuana should be removed from Schedule I, this proposed rule falls short and ultimately will not reduce the decades of damage caused by the criminalization of marijuana. Furthermore, the proposed rule misses an opportunity to align federal policy with where much of the country is headed, and is completely out of step with where most Americans are on this issue. Rather than rescheduling, I urge the DEA to reconsider its proposed rule and instead issue a rule that would completely deschedule marijuana from the CSA. Marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol and should be decriminalized. It is a waste of time and money to continue to put resources into enforcing its criminalization, and states who have legalized it have actually been able to raise millions in tax revenue. There is so much we can do with this money that would be more productive for the people of our country. 88 percent of Americans state they favor legalization for recreational or medicinal use, which is an amazingly high level of agreement in this time, and more than half state they have used it, making enforcement feel even more arbitrary. Thank you for your time in reading my comment. Please update the proposed rule change to fully decriminalize marijuana.
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