Downgrading Weed

No longer a Schedule I drug like heroin:

• President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

  The order signed by Todd Blanche does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under federal law. But it does change the way it’s regulated, shifting licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I — reserved for drugs without medical use and with high potential for abuse — to the less strictly regulated Schedule III. It also gives licensed medical marijuana operators a major tax break and eases some barriers to researching cannabis.

Marijuana enforcement was pretty much a non-starter over the last decade of our careers. You can't walk down the street or drive down the highway without smelling that crap everywhere. It goes no where in court and no one seems to care.

Weren't weed tax revenues supposed to cure all of of Illinois' budget woes? Like the lottery, right?

We imagine more weed gets tossed in the sewers or scattered into the wind than gets inventoried nowadays.