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Salutations,

While plenty of individuals hailed the recent Oval Office announcement as some "never seen before" progressive decree, others feel deeply critical about it and i'm among them. Make no mistake, staging a hollywoodian circus around lab coats opened no doors; at best this was much more like organizing a transfer from one cage to another that's still lined with dehumanizing bars.

As company we find nannies dancing at the rythm of puritan capitalism, which to me is just dΓ©jà‑vu reminiscent of Moscow's FCTC/COP6 (WHO) 2014 event where Nora Volkow's specter already seemed to be shaping the future of health-wise consumption methods (namely vaporizers, electronic cigarettes and water pipes). M'well from a distance because i doubt she was there at all, but somehow i get an impression that's one plausible link explaining her glowing smile confidently displayed as she stood only a few feet away from Donald Trump.


Trump signs executive order reclassifying cannabis | NBC News @ 14:43 ~ 15:48
[ https:// i.postimg.cc/267V9YxY/Trump-signs-executive-order-to-reclassify-cannabis-(2025-Dec-18)-640x600.png ]

Β« Uh I'm Nora Volkow. I'm director National Institute on Drug Abuse. And for us, the rescheduling opens the door to actually be able to accelerate the rate at which we can do research and discovery. And research is crucial in order for us to for example understand what may be and for whom the dangers of cannabis.
Yes, cannabis can be addictive. And certainly people adolescence and children may be the most vulnerable. But we cannot close our eyes to research and the opportunity that we are hearing from patients that for some of them cannabis can solve their problem. And so what we need to do is do research number one to understand what are those conditions. Number two, in order to be able to optimally learn how to use it and to understand number three, who is a danger and it is knowledge that will allow us to optimally benefit take the benefits that may be behind cannabis as research shows, but on the other hand also enable us better to do prevention interventions to protect those that are most vulnerable. Β»​

All i can tell with certainty is that NIDA's director visit of 2016 at hotel Marriott of MontrΓ©al contributed a great deal to the CSAM/SMCA 1st symposium on addiction as guest, and hence the destruction of QuΓ©bec's chances for true legalization. So, sorry kids but your adolescent brains will continue serving as her preferred battlefield pushing against recreational use reforms; in other words $peΒ’iali$ts/expert$ won't stop talking about your broken brains and pathological addiction anytime soon, while remaining blind to the really severe co-morbidity of alcohol... Meanwhile such self-serving political lever also garantees plain job security, FYI Volkow herself been thriving on anti-cannabis bigotry since at least 2003.

What Schedule III does for cannabis consumers is to remove a 280E tax burden from the shoulders of those making a dime on it, who can now contemplate future niche opportunities. It's safe to bet that's all the headlines will care about as well, besides H.R. 5371 of November 2025 finally putting a stop to psychoactive hemp markets β€” a breach opened by Trump's Farm Bill of 2018, finally extended to cover isomers as part of his new regulatory framework.

Never mind honesty and respect, self‑esteem is bound to stay under a thick $iΒ’k ’n $ad shadow, by design! Quite like in my $aΒ’ifiΒ’ed canuck province except USA is back to 2001 compared to Canada.

πŸͺ€πŸ”’βš οΈ
 
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Remember what came out of Nixon's Β« War-on-Drugs Β»?

'How can drug addiction help us understand obesity?', Nora D. Volkow & Roy A. Wise, Nature Neuroscience, 2005​
Nora Volkov   The myths of smoking pot 2014Jun24
A scientist’s view of pot myths - Delaware Online, Ruth Marcus (2014-Jun-26)​
Β« Wait a second. ... Nicotine does not interfere with cognitive ability. So if you are an adolescent and you are smoking marijuana and going to school, it’s going to interfere with your capacity to learn. So what is worse, as an adolescent right now? To have basically something that is jeopardizing your development educationally or to smoke a cigarette that, when you are 60 years of age, is going to lead to impaired pulmonary function and perhaps cancer? ... I would argue that you do not want to mess with your cognitive capacity, that that is a very large price to pay. Β»​
Nora Volkov at ADDICTION symposium in hotel Marriott Mtl Radio Canada 2016 Oct 440x260
Kevin Sabet at ADDICTION symposium in hotel Marriott Mtl Radio Canada 2016 Oct 440x260
Kevin Sabet at secret Intl Montral congress on addiction 2016 Oct
LΓ©galisation de la marijuana: des experts amΓ©ricains mettent en garde le Canada (2016-Oct-26)​

Just in case anyone is paying attention. Nora Volkow started to study addiction brains using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in 1985 and became director of NIDA in 2003, an institution created almost 3 months only before Nixon's resignation... At first she was focused on cocaΓ―ne (40 years ago), then her advocacy shifted toward cannabis (22 years ago).
Trump signs executive order to reclassify cannabis 2025 Dec 18 640x600

And finally she was having this glowing triumphant smile just a few feet away from Donald Trump the day he signed his Β« never seen before Β» decree...

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No context.

Why bother, in principle it made no difference during the months before.

Though it's true and since you seem to care lets begin with the source of my previous snapshot:


What else is needed for a reader to start searching for his own clues? Well, the names in convenient Copy 'n Paste format i guess:

Nora Volkow (NIDA)​
Jayanta Bhattacharya (NIH)​
Martin A. Makary (FDA)​
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (HHS)​
Donald Trump (PotUS)​

On top of this it turns out the White House has provided background of their own, right here:

Executive Orders (2026-Apr-18)​

Which won't help much trying to decipher what's really going on, and that's the reason why i pre-emptively provided some fair amount of historical details.

The next step would appear to involve the seeking of 3rd-party opinions NOT necessarily aligned with it all, for example:


But it's still only a hint of the MAHA strategy, my impression of the whole circus is much much darker.

...
 
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Why bother, in principle it made no difference during the months before.

Though it's true and since you seem to care lets begin with the source of my previous snapshot:


What else is needed for a reader to start searching for his own clues? Well, the names in convenient Copy 'n Paste format i guess:

Nora Volkow (NIDA)​
Jayanta Bhattacharya (NIH)​
Martin A. Makary (FDA)​
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (HHS)​
Donald Trump (PotUS)​

On top of this it turns out the White House has provided background of their own, right here:

Executive Orders (2026-Apr-18)​

Which won't help much trying to decipher what's really going on, and that's the reason why i pre-emptively provided some fair amount of historical details.

The next step would appear to involve the seeking of 3rd-party opinions NOT necessarily aligned with it all, for example:


But it's still only a hint of the MAHA strategy, my impression of the whole circus is much much darker.

...

I could have commited a crime I am so F'n mad!

The "Reschedule" is completed shit!
Donny can't think straight or stay awake anymore just pulled the big FU on people who are medical!

There are just a few states, after, TACO Trump Tacoed, where medical is not Schedule 1 not all of them.

So in advertising they pitched some form of freedom and then said only the States that have a Medical ONLY program are rescheduled.
If your State has both recreational and Medical too bad YOU LOSE!

And please vote every chance you get!
 
... The "Reschedule" is completed shit!

There's plenty of motive to feel bad about this. What's called "science" clearly happens to be a schizophrenic bureaucracy where the main HARD DRUG with severe co-morbidity, alcohol, still enjoys a protected status. Meanwhile, Schedule 3 only recognizes that cannabis can have some "medical" usefulness *IF* controlled & prescribed by the medical class.

Section 4 of the April 18 Executive Order sets the ultimate Trojan horse by targeting veterans as a captive source of demographic statistics. IMO that's nothing but a piston pushing for even more "real-world evidence" based on pathologies, turning participating patients into Pay-to-Play lab rats with "seriously" broken brains in a context of "breakthrough therapy"...

The new regulatory framework doesn't address this sinister adage: what's not explicitly forbidden is permissible. On the contrary, structural data-sharing is made MANDATORY while they'll restrict their findings to what they're dedicated to look for! In other words we can foresee this system based on notions of "addiction" and "impairment" will impose additional willful blindness in matters such as consumption methods, the entourage effect, chronic exposure to accumulated cocktail synergies aggravated by age vs life expectancy.

It’s going to feel like a rigged game negating the benefits. Now remember that Nora Volkow didn't just inherit a Nixon-era mandate, she actively aligned her entire career to be its main architect, by flirting with user demonization simply to keep that seat - hence the triumphant smile in Trump's Oval Office.

So we can bet having Joe Rogan in such circus theater was nothing to help, to me it's certainly no signal that the War-on-Drugs is finally over. In short i suspect the USA is about to shift from iron bars to walls of glass in preparation for the next step; put more briefly, its "legalization" reform may very well involve a transition to digital-age scrutiny and coerced conversion therapy instead of plain-old incarceration. Basically that ain't no healthcare plan, it's a juicy busine$$ opportunity for those who quickly align their hats, awaiting in line to ki$$ the ring.

Never mind hoping for a progressive change from the Democrats, we've seen how they spiraled during the last 2024 electoral campaign and it was most peculiar, if not ugly. In conclusion, a change of power barely promises to bring a new king in the oval office when it comes to cannabis.

That's why i submit these key words, to monitor how it will get twisted next:

HHS, NIH, FDA, CDC, VA, CMS, HRSA, NIDA, ARPA-H, MAHA, HIPAA, Privacy Act, and finally, 1984...

πŸ”­πŸ”¬
 
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