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The government moves to reclassify cannabis.

Tangle

Isaac Saul

International News, Politics, Election, Nonpartisan, Us Politics, Local News, News Commentary, Biden, Us Senate, Independent, Us News, Congress, Trump, News, Us House Of Representatives

4.8672 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Reclassifying marijuana. On Tuesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland submitted a proposal for a White House review to reclassify cannabis as a less dangerous controlled substance, moving it from a Schedule I drug to Schedule III


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Today’s clickables: Quick hits (1:23), Today’s story (3:23), Right’s take (6:34), Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Singer (8:58), Left’s take (19:00), Isaac’s take (22:39), Listener question (27:51), Under the Radar (31:04), Numbers (31:44), Have a nice day (32:51)


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From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.

0:44.7

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take.

1:00.4

I'm your host, Isaac Saul. And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the DEA reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule 3 drug.

1:10.3

We have a guest coming in today to talk a little bit about

1:13.2

his piece. So you're going to be hearing from Jeffrey A. Singer from the Cato Institute.

1:20.3

And as we talked a little bit about in one of the previous episodes, we're experimenting a little

1:25.0

bit with this new format. One of the big pieces of feedback

1:28.1

we got from folks is that it made more sense for me to read the reader question responses,

1:33.5

as well as my take, which I'm going to do today. So with that, I'm going to pass it over to

1:40.4

John, who's going to bring us in with the introduction of the story and the quick

1:44.3

hits and all that good stuff.

1:46.4

You'll hear from Dr. Singer, and then I'll give you my take.

1:55.0

Thank you, Isaac, and welcome, everybody.

1:58.9

Here are today's quick hits.

2:00.8

First up, U.S. Secretary of State

2:02.4

Anthony Blinken is increasing pressure on Hamas to seal a ceasefire deal, saying the window is closing

2:08.0

for an agreement. Hamas is seeking assurances that the deal will completely end Israel's offensive

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