No, it was made illegal for political reasons.

According to the people who made it illegal:

In addition, the folks enforcing prohibition weren't about to give up their power when prohibition ended, so they leapt upon other substances. They just didn't criminalize them as much as Nixon did.

Please learn how our government works before trying to comment.

Those two independents caucus with the Democrats. Making the chamber effectively split 50-50, with the Vice President breaking ties.

That's why Democrats are currently in charge of the Senate, hold the majority leader position, as well as all committee chairs.

However, legislation to legalize pot can be filibustered, and that's what the Republicans have done every time the House passes a legalization bill and they don't control the chamber.

A legalization bill can't be passed under reconciliation, so it can be filibustered.

Doesn't matter who is majority leader when it comes to legalization. Republicans either kill the bill because they control the chamber, or kill the bill because they filibuster.

Please read aaaaaaalll the way to the second sentence of TFSummary.

Well, one party has passed multiple bills in the House legalizing Cannabis.

The other party kills those bills when they arrive at the Senate, thanks to either controlling the chamber or using the filibuster.

It is a partisan issue.

Because there's two ways to legalize pot.

Way 1: Congress passes a law. Democrats have been trying to do this for a very long time, and successfully passed bills in the House many times. But Republicans in the Senate have blocked every bill.

Way 2: The Executive branch reschedules it, so that's it's basically legal but regulated. This doesn't require anything other than the Presidency, so it can be done without Republicans. But it's the stupid dance and pony show you're complaining about because we do a terrible job teaching civics in the US.

It should be noted that this mechanism has not been actually demonstrated in humans, and studies that attempted to do so have failed to do so. The best evidence so far is a correlation in sleep patters in some nocturnal mammals and mice. But they didn't cite a cause. Also, the same study had trouble finding the same correlation in humans.

However, subsequent studies like this one: https://www.cell.com/current-b... found that yellow light was actually more disruptive to sleep than blue light when the intensity of the lighting was kept constant.

TL:DR: This isn't nearly as settled as people make it out to be.

And keep in mind the claim they're relying on that blue light causes effects in humans is having a lot of trouble being replicated. Such as https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...

That isn't the issue.

The issue is many customers are now requiring a list and security scan of every library your product uses.

Open source generally has resulted in a very large stack of dependencies from a very large number of projects. Checking every one of those for CVE's, and constantly monitoring them for new CVE's is not a trivial amount of work. In addition, the "patch frequently" model of open source means having to do new security reviews frequently, greatly increasing the level of work.

A lot of commercial dependencies effectively do that work for you. They may have a giant dependency tree, but they've provided a sort of bill-of-materials you can use instead of having to do your own search. They also tend to release far less often.

It would be good for the higher-level open source libraries to provide a similar bill-of-materials-like thing, so that we don't make every user have to check every dependency. And so that you don't tell your customer you don't use a particular library only to find it's 7 levels deep in the dependency tree, but only when installed on 3 versions of Red Hat that a particular customer uses.

Also, often small libraries ends up growing and expanding into swiss-army-knife projects. You aren't using the library for those features - Literally what happened with log4j. We need to maintain a much more UNIX approach and keep the libraries focused. Why did we need the ability to execute code in a logging library? Shouldn't that have been a separate package?

Lastly, some customers are rather unhappy if one of those dependencies is maintained mostly by people in certain countries. Which is usually not to hard to replace when it's a direct dependency. But when it's many levels deep you're going to end up with an open source project that doesn't want to change to an equivalent dependency, a customer that refuses to let it be installed, and a company that will never want to spend the money to maintain a fork of something so far from their core business.

Talking to a mirror, Ken?

No, the middle class and poor are who already get "ruthlessly audited". Because auditing the rich costs a lot more money. Increased funding from the bill helps to address that.

That would be the Carried Interest Loophole, created decades ago. This bill attempted to close it, but failed to do so. It is not some new, sinister plot as you imply here.

It's amazing just how big you can make the numbers when you just make shit up.

Btw, the most common source of that fraud is when parents claim their children as dependents when they should not. When they do that, the children don't receive the EITC. But the people presenting the big numbers to make it sound so bad always manage to forget to include that when doing their math. If mom and dad received $2k that should have gone to Junior, then the Treasury isn't out $2k. Junior is.

Why, exactly, do you expect every bill to address every issue you can think of?

Nope. It takes about 10-15 years to build a nuclear plant after all approvals have been awarded. Deregulation would not significantly increase construction speed.

France that's had to shut down so many nuclear plants that they're now buying coal-generated electricity?

What a fantastic example of success of nuclear power.

It turns out electricity generation and heat generation are two different things. People who aren't morons actually understand this.

Yes, it is possible to use electricity to generate heat, but that's not what's installed in Germany. So more electricity generation won't do shit.

Because conquering democracies so that you can recreate an empire is bad. And when countries do so, they make life here in America worse, because the world got all connected starting in the 1950s.