Now, Trump signs his executive order and acts like he's made the whole thing up, like it was his idea to reschedule to Schedule 3.

Honestly, the DEA has been such a thorn in the side of justice for this particular issue for so long that I'm happy to have them cut out of the game.

This is one place where I'll take a unitary executive.

Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1219. I'm Thomas Smith. That over there is real life

immigration attorney, Matt Cameron. How you doing? Happy boxing day. I don't, I still don't really know what that is. I don't either, but can we play the boxer by Simon Garfunkel, one of my favorite songs? That is a great. That is a good song. It's such a good song. Got a love. Don't think it's that kind of boxing, though. I think you're supposed to take your gifts back or something.

But I've already

Lila Lai.

Does that mean

I have to take back

these Lila lies

that I've already Lila Lies.

Does that mean I have to take back these Lila Lies that I've already bought? If you want a lot of Lala Lies, you can listen back to Wednesday's episode. Yeah, it is Christmas and all that happening. So we were recording just after recording that for you. and so we are feeling the weight of 90-something minutes of that kind of thing.

But that's not what we're talking about now.

We wanted to talk about the marijuana rescheduling thing, and it turns out it's deja vu all over again because we've kind of already done this. We've pretty well covered it. I was really kind of amazed. I mean, the media I know has... Very short memory. I was about to say insomnia. That's not the word I'm looking for. Amnesia, I think is... I have insomnia. That's right. Okay. You have amsomnia, apparently. Yeah. They come together. They do... One does follow the other. But yeah, no, I just feel like there's all this news about how Trump is rescheduling cannabis from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3, and, Biden did do this last May or tried to. And I want to update you on what happened because it was a complete disaster. And it didn't get covered at all. Oh, wow. It was a disaster when Biden tried to do it? It's not Biden's fault. It's the fault of Biden's lack of unitary executive, ironically. Oh, yeah. No, darn. They just, they were working on polishing up and delivering that unitary executive just, and it, you know, it just arrived too late. It's like the Christmas present that's arriving right now as people are listening. Oh, darn it. Just the day after Christmas, they got that unitary executive. Isn't that a coincidence, you know? Classic irony. Boy, well, I'm sure the next president can enjoy it. But since we're on vacation here, I thought it'd be good to go back and listen because, honestly, back last May, we talked about this at length, and I thought it was a great episode. I was really happy with the way it came out. So I think we should go back and listen to the explanation. Before we get to the Trump

stuff, go back and listen to the explanation of what Biden did last May and how it compares to what Trump just did this week. Do it where are they now after that? Yeah. We'll catch up. Nice. I love it. All right. Well, that's what we're going to do. So after this break, go right into that episode and people Yeah, that segment of 0-8-1031, if you want to play along at home.

We were so young.

We also talked about Eileen Cannon and how she's trying to stop the Trump trial. Yeah. Well, she didn't, but also. You don't have to listen to that part. Yeah. Pay no attention to the part that's now super depressing in retrospect, although that's most of it. All right, well, we'll take our break. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Please share the show. And thanks for supporting patreon.com slash law. Really important. We can't thank you enough for the support. We hope you're having a great holiday. And when we come back, we will be in the past. A year and a half ago, right? Something like that. More than a year.

Oh, wow. I'm just going to do some math. Yeah. Wow. We're so young and carefree back then. No,

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