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If the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reclassified marijuana as a less dangerous drug, it wouldn't eliminate the conflicts between the feds and states such as California that have legalized ...
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 ...
The Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana for the first time since the Controlled Substances Act was enacted more than 50 years ago. DEA to reclassify marijuana, easing restrictions ...
Yet one organizer, who helped unsuccessful petition efforts in 2022 and 2023, hopes federal reclassification of marijuana nudges more lawmakers to support legalization.
The President made descheduling and other cannabis reforms a topic of the 2024 State of the Union Address; [2] it was the first time the word "marijuana" had been used in a State of the Union Address since Ronald Reagan called it a target of the War on Drugs alongside cocaine in 1988. [3]
No changes are expected to the medical marijuana programs now licensed in 38 states or the legal recreational cannabis markets in 23 states, but it's unlikely they would meet the federal production, record-keeping, prescribing and other requirements for Schedule III drugs.
Schedule III drugs are easier to study, though the reclassification wouldn't immediately reverse all barriers to study. “It’s going to be really confusing for a long time,” said Ziva Cooper, director of the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids.
Marijuana plants are seen at a secured growing facility in Washington county, N.Y. The federal government first classified cannabis as a Schedule I drug back in 1970 with the Controlled Substances ...