No. It isn’t. And the panic around it says more about who’s panicking than about what’s actually happening.
I’ll be honest — this is a weird one to write. Not because it’s complicated, but because it’s hard to hold onto what actually matters while letting go of what doesn’t. There’s a lot of noise right now about Schedule 3, and a lot of very confident people telling you what it *means*. Maybe they know something. Maybe they know a few things. I know what I know — if you know what I mean. IYKYK.
Let’s get something straight early: nobody knows exactly how this all plays out. Anyone pretending otherwise is guessing, selling, or posturing. History doesn’t move like that. It unfolds.
There’s an old story about a farmer whose horse runs away. The neighbors say, “That’s bad.” The farmer says, “We’ll see.” The horse comes back with more horses. “That’s good.” “We’ll see.” His son breaks his leg riding one. “That’s bad.” “We’ll see.” A war comes, and the son can’t be drafted. Good thing, bad thing — we’ll see. That’s how this stuff actually works.
What I *do* know is this: what’s happening right now is not a crackdown, not a rollback, and not some sneaky new way to make it harder to grow or possess weed. That story doesn’t add up. The war on weed was fought under far worse conditions than this — and we still won. We didn’t win by asking nicely.
Schedule 3 isn’t a leash. It’s an admission that the old story finally collapsed — and that’s a good thing. We should all be happy about that.
Who benefits from the fear surrounding cannabis being moved to Schedule 3?
Fear moves us. Sex and fear sell — we all know that. Fear around Schedule 3 is going to move money. It’s going to move attention. It’s going to move leverage. And it’s going to move people’s ideas and perceptions.
When we spread panic around rescheduling, it’s worth asking why. Who gets safer. Who gets richer. Who gets more influential. We know the answers — or do we?
A lot of the fear I’m seeing isn’t coming from the outside. It’s coming from our own side. Corporate voices wrapped in mom-and-pop language. Money-heavy operators warning everyone the sky is falling — usually in ways that just happen to protect their position.
Don’t sell fear. It sounds like you’ve got something to defend.
And don’t jump up and down like everything’s suddenly perfect either. You can sit back, smile to yourself, and celebrate quietly with your friends — just not too much. There’s still work to do. We don’t want to cloud our judgment right now. This is a moment for wisdom.
Does knowing the details of cannabis rescheduling mean you understand where this is going?
It’s possible to know a lot about one slice of this and still miss the current. Partial clarity is more dangerous than ignorance, because it feels like certainty — and certainty locks you in, at least that’s the way I see it.
If you follow my metaphor here, it’s easy to mistake ankle-deep water for the ocean.
Meanwhile, some of us have been swimming in open water for decades. With real risk. Real consequences. Big fish. Sharks. That changes how you read the currents, if you follow my analogy. It also changes how seriously you take panic or hype coming from people who’ve never left the shallows.
What did it cost to get cannabis to Schedule 3?
Before arguing about Schedule 3, it’s worth asking what had to happen just to get rescheduling on the table at all — not in theory, but in real life.
People paid for this culture. With arrests. With records. With our doors kicked in. With our crops burned. With our families strained. With years we didn’t get back… and still we came together, still shared, still passed the joint… still carried the culture forward when it wasn’t popular or profitable. That’s not nostalgia, that’s earned ground.
Trust me… I should know. As a 420 veteran and former POT POW.
This isn’t new wisdom — and if it feels new to some people, I’m glad they’re hearing it. But it’s not new. It’s original. It’s OG wisdom. The kind we talk about when the joint’s been passed a few times and people stop bullshitting.
That wisdom has been echoed by people like Bob Marley, by Martin Luther King Jr., and by real cannabis OGs who understood that certainty can be just as dangerous as fear.
“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
So yeah — give thanks and praise. Respect the movement, the work, and the sacrifices that got us here. And keep fighting. Don’t just sit back, smoke a pre-roll, and complain about government or parties or some abstract “they.” We’re doing great — let’s not lose ourselves now.
Clear water has a funny way of showing you who’s really swimming — and who just grabbed the bait and ran.
So what’s Professor Potgrower’s advice?
Grab another joint. Pass it to the left-hand side. Chill out. And let the water settle.