I’m not sure I agree with this being uplifting. It’s basically law makers doing the bare minimum after decades of propaganda demonizing weed.

Critics point out that as a Schedule III drug, marijuana would remain regulated by the DEA. That means the roughly 15,000 cannabis dispensaries in the U.S. would have to register with the DEA like regular pharmacies and fulfill strict reporting requirements, something that they are loath to do and that the DEA is ill equipped to handle.

just like they killed safer tobacco consumption methods

now we will only have dispensaries that are able to “comply” with the rules

after four years of Trump thought the US would do better than a far right religious Catholic and Prosecutor