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On December 17, 2009, Rev. Bryan A. Krumm, CNP, filed a rescheduling petition for Cannabis with the DEA arguing that "because marijuana does not have the abuse potential for placement in Schedule I of the CSA, and because marijuana now has accepted medical use in 13 states, and because the DEA's own Administrative Law Judge has already ...
Biden called for rescheduling in 2022 and has repeatedly said that no one should be jailed just for marijuana possession or use. That doesn't mean rescheduling isn't without benefits.
In the year before weed became legal, New Jersey police officers made nearly 20,000 marijuana possession arrests – more than 54 per day. In 2017, there were nearly 38,000 arrests, according to ...
President Joe Biden's Justice Department took a significant step toward rescheduling marijuana as lower-risk ... which has thrived despite legalization in states like New York and California, and ...
The Drug Enforcement Administration initiated a 2024 policy review to potentially reschedule marijuana as a Schedule III drug, amounting to "the agency's biggest policy change in more than 50 years". [4] Some hiring and retention policies in federal employment and the armed forces evolved during 2024.
On March 31, 2021, following New York legalization under the 2021 Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced he would soon introduce a federal bill to deschedule cannabis, similar to his 2018 Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act. [1]
Justice Dept plans to reschedule marijuana as a lower-risk drug Alicia Wallace, Katherine Dillinger, Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Kayla Tausche, CNN April 30, 2024 at 3:48 PM
The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, also known as the MORE Act, is a proposed piece of U.S. federal legislation that would deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and enact various criminal and social justice reforms related to cannabis, including the expungement of prior convictions.