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<\/picture> <\/div>\nSchedule III:\u00a0<\/strong>President Donald Trump is soon expected to push for the federal reclassification of marijuana.<\/p>\n “Trump discussed the plan with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) in a Wednesday phone call from the Oval Office, said four of the people, who, like the others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly,” reports<\/a>\u00a0The Washington Post.<\/em> “The president is expected to seek to ease access to the drug through an upcoming executive order that directs federal agencies to pursue reclassification, the people said.”<\/p>\n Cannabis advocates have long hoped for this. Reclassifying marijuana, bringing it down to Schedule III from Schedule I<\/a> (drugs with “high potential for abuse” and “no currently accepted medical use”\u2014so, not cannabis) would allow for fewer barriers to research and to more legal businesses springing up, as well as less harassment by the authorities.<\/p>\n “We’re looking at [reclassification]. Some people like it, some people hate it,” Trump said<\/a> over the summer. “Some people hate the whole concept of marijuana because it does bad for the children, it does bad for the people that are older than children.” Now it seems that, for whatever reason (maybe looking for an easy public-sentiment win?), the idea is back on the table (timing unclear). This is the blessing and the curse of Trump: You never really know which idea is going to pop in his mind and stick there and become quickly enacted, or when he’ll embrace his sleeper libertarian tendencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump, of course, can’t unilaterally decide this, but he “can direct the Justice Department to forgo a pending administrative court hearing and issue the final rule,” reports<\/a> the\u00a0Post.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Scenes from New York: <\/em><\/strong>“Universal child care need not be a pipe dream in America\u2014something we envy the Danes and the Swedes for, but never imagine having for ourselves,” writes<\/a> Rachel Cohen Booth for\u00a0The New York Times.<\/em> “It can and should be as fundamental to a city’s infrastructure as transit or housing, as essential for attracting workers and residents<\/a> as any investment a mayor can make.”<\/p>\n I disagree on a principles level\u2014it’s not clear to me why other taxpayers need to subsidize my family’s choices or why relatively high-earners should be subsidized by the state, given practical funding realities\u2014and Cohen Booth is far more optimistic than I could ever be about whether Zohran Mamdani’s program will be possible to implement and well-designed. Bill de Blasio was rather explicit<\/a> when rolling out universal pre-school for 4-year-olds (later expanded to 3-year-olds too) that “anything that has a broad constituency will also have more sustainability.” This appears to be part of Mamdani’s thinking, and perhaps more broadly behind the rise in universal everything<\/em> from vast swaths of the left. But the $6 billion price tag is going to be hard\u00a0<\/em>to handle\u2014especially for Albany\u2014and Mamdani’s expectation that child care workers be brought up to pay parity with public schoolteachers seems unrealistic.<\/span><\/p>\n INDIANA STATE SENATE has rejected redistricting. <\/p>\n 19-31.<\/p>\n TRUMP's push for a 9-0 map failed. Big defeat for the Trump administration.<\/p>\n — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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