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BREAKING: Ross Ulbricht has been pardoned by President Donald Trump
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) January 21, 2025
If you don't know who Ross is
FREEDOM!!
FREEDOM!!!! pic.twitter.com/itRuuyFAxe
β Free_Ross (@Free_Ross) January 22, 2025
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I haven't heard that name in a long time, what happened to him?
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afaik arrested for weed and thus banned from owning firearms and that obviously killed his channel. He does some podcasting stuff or whatever now tho.
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The way drugs are treated in the last two decades is just insane.
I really hope Trump pulls something out of his butt and rejiggers this patchwork system where 1oz means you can't own firearms as a responsible adult but male feminist junkies can shoot up in front of the Dunkin' day and day out.
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Wrong part of government. You need congress for that.
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Couldn't Trump reschedule weed? I'd assume that'd be a blow to a lot of these cases, even if a lot of laws still had weed on the books.
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Nope. Scheduling is set by congress.
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Iirc trump pushed the farm bill through which gave exception to marijuana thc levels resulting in the convoluted grey market currently online
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TIL
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I did a deep dive on this before the 2020 election when a bunch of the dem primary candidates were making noise about it and my takeaway was something along the lines of: congress set up the original list of controlled drugs (The Controlled Substances Act) and has the ability to make changes to the list. The executive branch also has the ability to modify the list via recommendations of the AG/head of health and human services/DEA, but this ability was originally conceived to cover new novel substances that congress doesn't have time to research and were not in the original list. In practice this ability is (exclusively?) exercised by the DEA for banning new drugs/research chemicals whenever they get a little too popular.
Executive branch rescheduling stuff that's already on the list as a result of congressional action is a bit of a gray area and afaik has never been done before but may be possible depending on how the courts feel about it.
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Still makes a boring podcast with his tryhard friends. Occasionally they invite guests on and then don't let them talk.
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Isn't he out?
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banned from owning guns forever though afaik
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still a felon federally
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Please
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If Barron shoots guns with him and makes epic gaming references he's absolutely going to become president
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