The best time to de-schedule cannabis was 10 years ago
The second-best time to do it is now
Unfortunately, the War on Drugs is just Jim Crow 2.0, enacted shortly after the end of Jim Crow 1.0 (fun fact, Jim Crow laws remained in force until 1965, the War on Drugs started in 1971). In the end it was just a massive expansion of police discretionary authority, and in the beginning it was explicitly intended to give police the ability to crack down on political enemies of the Nixon administration- that is, black people and the anti-war left.
The GOP will never let cannabis be de-scheduled; they understand that without it more minorities won’t be convicted felons and will be able to vote against them (and never forget that convicts are slave labor and there’s a lot of money in that)
The best time to de-schedule cannabis was 10 years ago
The second-best time to do it is now
Unfortunately, the War on Drugs is just Jim Crow 2.0, enacted shortly after the end of Jim Crow 1.0 (fun fact, Jim Crow laws remained in force until 1965, the War on Drugs started in 1971). In the end it was just a massive expansion of police discretionary authority, and in the beginning it was explicitly intended to give police the ability to crack down on political enemies of the Nixon administration- that is, black people and the anti-war left.
The GOP will never let cannabis be de-scheduled; they understand that without it more minorities won’t be convicted felons and will be able to vote against them (and never forget that convicts are slave labor and there’s a lot of money in that)