President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to fast-track the reclassification of cannabis, which would pave the way for the Food and Drug Administration to study its medicinal uses.
“This is really something having to do with common sense,” Trump said in the Oval Office before signing the order.
The order does not make cannabis legal nationwide, the president said.
“It doesn’t legalize marijuana in any way, shape or form or and in no way sanctions its use as a recreational drug,” he said, adding the order is aimed at helping people struggling with chronic pain.
He also indicated he would not be open to legalizing cannabis for recreational use. “It’s never safe to use powerful controlled substances in a recreational manner,” he said.
“During World War II, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was lifted briefly to allow for hemp fiber production to create ropes for the U.S. Navy but after the war marijuana reverted to its de facto illegal status” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_for_Victory 20251228 22:53
Your post is false information. It was never illegal prior to 1937. Prior to the federal Marijuana act of 1937 cannabis it was legal at the federal level and was used for industrial, medicinal, and recreational purposes. The first national regulation came with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which effectively criminalized marijuana by imposing strict taxes and penalties on… Read more »
I think the only reason you are on this site, Damnn the Torpedos of many names, is to trash Trump and convince readers to hate him too. The inflation rate is much better than Biden’s. I have articles on this site as to how inflation numbers have been manipulated over the decades, but, in general, inflation is better than it… Read more »
If that’s what you think, your delusional. Your wrong!. I’m not a fan of being deceived, simple as that. I don’t care who’s doing the deceiving, I’ll call them out. Particularly those that are in office to govern. Fichte laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be… Read more »
“The order does not make cannabis (AKA: DOPE) legal nationwide, the president said”.
— WHEW !!! SO SHE’S STILL ILLEGAL !!!! >>>>
Working for big pharma. This administration has an extremely bad track record of doing that.
Something that people could grow for free, now will be only legal when a pharmaceutical company owns a patent on it. Incisively for big pharmas profits over commonsense. They want to GMO pot for patents and profits. Go figure.
Before 1937, marijuana was used in various forms, including as an ingredient in medicinal products sold openly in pharmacies, and it was even encouraged for domestic production during World War II under the “Hemp for Victory” program. Marijuana use was relatively low and not widespread until decades after federal prohibition began.