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The only meaningful change for this would be via legislation, otherwise trump can just as easily undo it the same day.
Edit: looks like the process is much more complicated and actually Biden already started the process at the beginning of this year (April): https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/update-deas-efforts-reschedule-cannabis-what-you-need-know-2024-09-11/ , I don't understand this article
Edit 2: the letter is actually asking him to try to hurry the process up (the article from September that I linked says there supposed to be hearing scheduled this Monday (Dec 2nd)). It is very misleading (as you can see from the comments), because it implies Biden is just ignoring this issue completely.
https://lee.house.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_biden_admin_re_marijuana.pdf
He actually started the process to review what it was scheduled as to get it changed in 2022. It like everything else surrounding our government takes forever.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-submits-proposed-regulation-reschedule-marijuana
Unless of course it's something he wants to do, like sell weapons for an ongoing genocide. Then all bureaucracy evaporates into nothingness.
His hands are untied when he wants them to be.
Look, I get that you’re trying to make a point, but this is like complaining your parents were able to pay the mortgage every week but not buy you a new bike. One is planned, budgeted, agreed upon by all parties. The other is something you want, that takes time and planning which has yet to take place.
Giving away arms to a genocide isn't... budgeted.
What line item(s) can you point to for "Palestinian Genocide Budget"?
There's literally a law on the books that says he MUST stop arms transfers to Israel, since the UN has declared an ongoing genocide.
This is the type of level-headed, honest discussion I came here from reddit for.
As far as centrists are concerned, genocide is as vital as shelter.
One is something Biden wanted, and the other is rescheduling cannabis.
Everything with government doesn’t have to be slow, but congress wrote this bill so that two successive presidents would have to keep pursuing it.
Trump can just undo it anyway. What's the point. And saying that's not how its done is pointless cause they don't play by the rules.
Right. He waited until it couldn't be completed until after the end of his term. On purpose. He ran out the clock. On purpose.
He never wanted to reschedule cannabis and dragged his feet until he didn't have to.