I did this for my mom when it first became available as medical. I had to get some special set up so I could be her provider. Not honestly sure how much it helped. A bit of tincture under the tongue, seemed better for her than salve. YMMV.
I’ll have a hit when playing chess with my wife. She smokes more than I. Beer is my drug of choice.
It’s been legal in my state for a while. I don’t use it recreationally, as I find the effects more boring and annoying than actually pleasurable, but I will use it as a sleep aid and as a muscle pain relief for which it is excellent and inexpensive.
Incremental progress is still progress.
When I consume beer and cannabis concurrently, the total I consume is less of each than if I’m only consuming one or the other.
That might be the best justification that I have ever heard. 
Likewise. Grass is better for you anyway. Yeah the smoke is bad for your lungs, but you don’t need much now adays.
It should, but I don’t think it will. Unlike other controlled substances, the federal marijuana laws (including some really stiff sentences) are not dependent on what schedule the drug is considered.
For example, 5 year mandatory minimum for 100 kg or 100 plants.
What changing the schedule might do is allow more research into the health benefits and uses.
Decades ago, when talk at work turned to booze, I’d always say “that’s not my drug, man” in the style of Freddy Prinze in Chico and the Man.
eta: The line from Chico and the Man was: “that’s not my job, man”. I used that line at work a lot, too 
Trump said he’s going to sign an executive order to do this coming soon. I’m not an industry analyst so am not so motivated to iron out the details.
I think my viewpoint stems from living in a town in Southern California. Two of the most high-traffic businesses in my neighborhood are dispensaries so changing its schedule seems like a natural step.
Do we know whether that authority is actually in the executive? Or is the scheduling defined in law only Congress can change?
Yes, I know, trump makes a habit of exceeding his legal authority. But the rest of the system often invalidates the implementation of stuff he loudly claims he has done with an EO.
Ha ha! You mean like, fr’instance, imposing tariffs? 
But he almost always gets away with it because the system of checks and balances is broken. In this one rare case he has (almost) done something right, though it shouldn’t be on any prohibitive schedule in the first place.
Cannabis in many forms including edibles, oils, and concentrates has been legal in Canada for years and we’re still surviving! I have several forms of it but very, very rarely use it. I don’t generally like its effects, but there’s no rational justification for it being illegal at all. The demonization of cannabis has a long and sordid history that includes the malign influence of the post-prohibition era commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics Harry J Anslinger (back when “Reefer Madness” was considered an important educational film and not an unintentional comedy). It was intensified by the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act (1970) under Nixon, which classified cannabis under Schedule I, treating it as an exceptionally dangerous “narcotic” with no justifiable medical use.
Cannabis being classified as a Schedule I “narcotic” is probably the most extreme example ever of US drug regulation going so insanely off the rails.
ETA: Edited to reflect what I think @HMS_Irruncible has stated correctly – the drug classification categories are the prerogative of Congress, but it seems reasonable to assume that specific drug classifications are the prerogative of government agencies like the FDA and hence under executive authority.
Yes on both counts. The schedules were defined by Congress in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, but the executive has authority to decree which substances are under which schedules. So Trump can (and should) do this. If he felt like it, he could place Tylenol in schedule 1 and heroin in sched 5. What he can’t do is redefine what sched 1 and 5 are.
Thank you.