“We are considering that because a lot of people want to see it — the reclassification, because it leads to tremendous amounts of research that can’t be done unless you reclassify. So, we are looking at that very strongly,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

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    This was promised his first term, never happened. Meanwhile, he starts a new war on drugs in LATAM. Fun times.

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      It’s a war for oil and other resources they are just using drugs as a cover because it’s worked so well in the past.

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        Not saying you’re wrong, but what is the latent purpose for using millions of dollars in military firepower to blow up poor drug mules at sea?

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          Their military firepower manufacturing buddies get more money that way.

          On a more serious note, they’re testing the waters to see if anyone will do anything meaningful to stop them.

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            True, but they’re still dead. Mules or not, these are just poor guys in a boat. What is it that these warmongers are trying to do?

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              They aren’t trying anything. What they are doing is killing indiscriminately while drumming up a bullshit reason to start a war and invade another sovereign nation for its oil deposits.

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                Makes sense. Glad my taxes are going to this and not those worthless, hungry, city kids.

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    President Donald Trump said Monday that the White House is “very strongly” considering signing an executive order to reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification, which would ease federal restrictions.

    What a nitwit. You can’t reschedule it with an executive order. The substances on those lists are there according to legislation passed by congress and signed by presidents who could actually tell their ass from a hole in the ground. The legislation defines the steps needed to change the classification of drugs on those lists. And an executive order is not one of those steps.

    I suppose Trump didn’t notice, but he could arrange for marijuana to be reclassified fairly quickly by just continuing the process that Biden started in October of 2022.

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    Moving to Schedule III isn’t the right move anyway. He should be pushing Congress to amend the current legislation to remove marijuana from the drug schedules entirely and treat it like tobacco and alcohol.

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      I mean, he isn’t supposed to have the ability to unilaterally make or change tariffs, either, but if everyone goes along with it, de facto…

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      What a nitwit. You can’t reschedule it with an executive order.

      Now we know what “considering very strongly” means, coming out of this admin’s cake hole.

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      You can’t reschedule it with an executive order.

      Yeah, you need to wait until the last year of your presidency and then start asking the DEA to start considering looking into thinking about one day rescheduling. And strongly suggest you’re looking for a “no.”

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    Pedo-in-Chief needs a PR win. Releases bullshit press release testing public opinion to see if this will prevent release of Epstein Files.

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      Yeah, that’s how I read it as well. Fucker is spiraling the drain, likely dying and subconsciously needing a win. His mouth breathing cult loves weed, right? That’ll make ‘em happy…

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    The con-artist/pedo regime lies all day every day, the safest assumption here is this is just another lie or throwaway distraction.