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From: adam.schitt@dont-email.me

Put this in your pipe and smoke it: Donald Trump just legalized marijuana
across the US.

As On The Money has been reporting since April, our famously drug-and-
drink-averse president has been inching ever closer to making marijuana
significantly less criminal in the eyes of the federal government.

On Thursday, it finally happened. He signed an executive order to
“reclassify” weed to a “Schedule III” drug — throwing it into the
same
category as codeine-laced Tylenol, testosterone and anabolic steroids.
That’s versus its current “Schedule I” classification as a controlled
substance, which it shares with hard-core staples like heroin, LSD and
ecstasy.

This will surely blow the minds of the nation’s 17 million potheads, many
of whom partake in not only a substance but a culture that bears scant
affinity with the MAGA hat-wearing real estate tycoon who occupies the
White House.

Hang on — hasn’t pot already been legal in nearly all 50 states? The
answer is yes. But the implications are big now that the feds are
classifying a so-called “Schedule III” drug, a substance “with a moderate
to low potential for physical and psychological dependence,” as opposed to
a “Schedule I” drug, which has “a high potential for abuse and serves no
legitimate medical purpose.”

Namely, a Schedule III classification means the $60 billion-a-year
business of weed in the US can be “banked” and it can grow exponentially
as the US banking system will no longer consider it off limits.

https://nypost.com/2025/12/19/business/trump-just-legalized-marijuana-
nationwide-heres-why-potheads-are-rejoicing/

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