US stayes that legalized weed had all of the predicted positive outcomes like reduced crime related to weed, increased taxes because it is taxed, etc.

You know, the obvious outcomes for anyone who doesn't buy into reefer madness.

Still waiting on Congress to decriminalize and expunge records.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3617

Amazingly enough after Canada legalized weed our country didn't instantly fall into anarchy.

Not yet my friend, not yet /s

It will at least open up research for cannabis drug development into FDA approved products.

That all depends on when Democrats get congressional majority. Congress is responsible for legislative decriminalization.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3617

For people like me who use it medicinally, this is a huge win.

Its the next major step in the process of getting it rescheduled. Each step could potentially end that process, so each movement forward is great news.

The DEA already agreed to the FDA’s Schedule III recommendation. Now it’s open for 60 days of public comment.

If there’s no change in mind, it gets passed to up the to both HHS and DOJ as approvals, then sent to Biden to sign off. (I think)

I don’t see why we don’t try to actually fix shit.

Because then they can't keep kicking the can down the road for the next election.

Gotta keep that voter base involved somehow, and when you aren't actually gonna give them anything to be happy about, you've got to trot out nice little lies you'll never follow through with to make them get out to vote.

No, because it's still illegal. This reclassification is a compromise, not a solution.

Biden has done what he is able to do. He proclaimed presidential pardon for federal marijuana charges in late 2022. However, the executive branch has no authority to impact state level charges, which would likely be the vast majority of people affected by marijuana policing over time. In a world where government works as intended, state level organizations should take their cues from what the federal government is doing, but, as I understand it, they are not necessarily beholden to slavishly adopt the federal posture. Perhaps someone with a deeper understanding might illuminate us further.

Probably not yet...biggest advantage of moving from Sch 1 to Sch 3 is that it means federal research grants/money can be used now to determine what the actual medicinal uses.

No. It is still a controlled substance. They have merely lowered it's classification rather than DE-classifying it entirely, which is what they should have done.