Anonymous #1 2d

acknowledging/researching the medical potential of cannabis instead of maintaining its schedule 1 status as an artifact of when criminalization was used to incarcerate hippies and poc en masse?

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Anonymous OP 2d

have you seen european cannabis laws

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Anonymous #1 2d

we aren’t like “behind” anything

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Anonymous #1 2d

mf i’m currently in europe and having medical cannabis delivered to my doorstep, and I can travel to many countries in europe with it

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Anonymous #1 2d

in the US research of medical cannabis only became permissible recently with the rescheduling of state-legally distributed medical cannabis to schedule 3

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Anonymous OP 2d

which country

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Anonymous #1 2d

I’m in the UK. i’m aware recreational cannabis is still illegal here, but I have been prescribed medical cannabis for long term medication side effect related sleep disruption, and all told it’s taken 9 days from my first consultation to medical cannabis being delivered to me. I know cannabis can help my sleep issues because i recently tried it while in a recreationally legal state in the US.

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Anonymous OP 2d

also, I’ll note that my current solution for managing this, melatonin, is prescription only here (i bought mine in the states and brought it back with me, which is legal) and I wouldn’t be able to get a melatonin prescription to treat my sleep issue.

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Anonymous OP 2d

ok but i think you’re being unfair shitting on the us when half of the states have some of the most progressive cannabis policy in the world

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Anonymous #1 2d

But federal criminalization kind of defeats that. the federal govt chooses not to enforce it presently, but being a federal crime significantly impacts the realities of progressive cannabis policy in those states. it’s impossible to buy cannabis with a debit card, unless the dispensary is technically doing a cash withdrawal and then you pay in cash, because of federal law. the medical apparatus is limited by the inability to research it, until like weeks ago.

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Anonymous #1 2d

and the big one for me is I can travel with it here. Medical cannabis is a significant help to many people, and federal criminalization dramatically limits the ability of those people to travel within the US. even travelling between legal states, flying is illegal, and any other mode of transport is interstate drug trafficking, technically speaking.

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Anonymous #1 2d

federal criminalization also creates a patchwork system where there are no consistent standards for administration of medical cannabis programs, which means that patient outcomes can differ significant from state to state. Yes progressive cannabis policy in legal states is a good thing, but federal criminalization adds a ridiculous amount of friction that is dramatically reduced in other parts of the world that have already implemented medical cannabis options.

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Anonymous #1 2d

like entirely separate from the conversation about recreational legalization, there’s essentially no reason that medical cannabis should not be legal.

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Anonymous #1 2d

yeah tbh states could legalize as much as they want but it doesn’t mean much until the fed does. fed supersedes state

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