Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-places-fda-approved-marijuana-products-and-products-containing-marijuana Only for those that have medical cannabis licenses. That's what it rescheduled to schedule three this morning. Further review of cannabis is scheduled for an expedited administrative hearing on June 29th. Small step forward but it's interesting to see where this goes.

So still illegal on the federal level? Dumb. Should have been legalized decades ago.

I want full federal legalization, it’s just stupid it hasn’t happened.

Cool what about federal employee medical use?? Edit: omg 17 years on Listnook and I’ve never gotten this many upvotes!

Nobody from the Epstein files has been prosecuted.

Didn't Biden start the ball rolling in 2021? https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248403456/the-biden-administration-advances-its-aim-to-reclassify-marijuana

I still think it's crazy that every single time a ballot initiative has come up to legalize recreational marijuana since 2008, it has had over 50% of the votes. This means, just among voting people, more than half of them want it to be completely legal for recreational adult use. Not even a prescription medication. In one of those cases, it didn't pass because the state requires 60%, but it got within a few percent of that. Then you look at the politicians, and they're like "well I guess we can make it from the most serious possible dangerous category to the less serious but still totally dangerous category."

Only trying so soften the republican party's image for the mid terms.

Release the Epstein files.

I think this has more to do with the upcoming ruling in U.S. vs Hemani than anything. Sounds like SCOTUS is going to rule in favor of 2A so that people can smoke weed and have guns. Big win for surface level Libertarians.

Doesn’t mean shit when it’s still restricted. Ohio legalized a few years ago and somehow we now have MORE restrictions on what weed we can smoke or consume and where we can get it from.. it’s a f****** felony to even possess weed from another state or have it outside of its original packaging. They’ve consistently cut back grow allowances from weight to plants you’re allowed to have.. Politicians only care about making their investor friends rich.

"It also gives licensed medical marijuana operators a major tax break and eases some barriers to researching cannabis."...so prices will be coming down...right?

He couldn't have done this earlier in the week? I swear, he has no sense of timing.

Reclassification is not decriminalization though.  You can still get arrested and charged. Just perhaps not be sentence to life in jail Whereas in Canada nothing happens to you

Still going to recriminalize hemp-derived THC in November so this is mostly meaningless.

Wake me up when i can smoke on Saturday morning and not get fired from a random on Monday

See the democrats could have legalized it federally and had a massive amount of support thanks to new revenue streams through taxes. But no, they let Trump do this so he can tout it during the midterms and try to get votes

While this sounds like something good, it's not. This will just allow pharmaceutical companies to get a stranglehold on the weed market. It also provides reasoning behind banning home grows: well, we don't let people make any *other* scheduled medicine at home, do we? It should not be scheduled at all.

Sorry Trump... I love weed but I still hate you and the Republican party.

So f****** stupid, shit should’ve been legalized on a federal level decades ago.

Democrats had the opportunity to take this win for years and years.

Oh his internal approval polling must be low low

Living in Michigan I genuinely forget sometimes that weed is still widely illegal in this country. There are literally like 7 dispensaries within a 15 minute drive of me

This is just a good policy change. Not going to let my opinion of him otherwise cloud that.

That pedophile isn't doing anything other than distracting from his failures

**Key Details on the Marijuana Review:** Initial Action (2022): President Biden called for a administrative review of how marijuana is scheduled under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and issued pardons for federal simple possession offenses. HHS Recommendation (2023): The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Proposed Rule (2024): The Biden administration formally proposed reclassifying marijuana to Schedule III, recognizing its medical use, but this is not full legalization or decriminalization. Current Status & Next Steps (2026) President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug. [-source](https://lamag.com/news-and-politics/biden-administration-moves-to-reclassify-cannabis-report/#:~:text=It%20is%20currently%20classified%20as,share%20the%20love!)

Great, he's still a piece of shit.

Great! Still voting Democrat!

This ain’t shit. Tell me when it’s no longer classified.

Should be at least on the same level as cigarettes and alcohol.

Of course it is still illegal. Prisons and policing are major industries in the US with a huge lobby. Being able to say, "I smell pot" is a very effective and time tested way for police to circumvent your 4th amendment rights which are otherwise a bar to a stop, a detention, a frisk, a search, an arrest, etc. that they want to push more people into the legal and prison system. This is all about money.

It's all bullshit until they let federal employees use it. That's the real indicator of an actual policy change.

I really don't understand why people are happy about this. it's still federally illegal. this is literally nothing. grow up people. realize this is a nothing burger

They know legalization will kill their market 💀

Cool now release the Epstein files

Unless I missed it, one thing the article doesn't mention, but is incredibly important, is that this also opens up banking to marijuana companies. Previously, all federally banking facilities, i.e. all banks, couldn't do business with them for fear of prosecution. This also should limit, but sadly not entirely eliminate, opportunities for corrupt and malicious asset forfeiture by for marijuana.

This has been an easy W lying on a silver platter for DECADES which Dems never seized despite widespread support from their base. Federal legalization of weed as an election goal will mobilize TONS of people

> The order signed by Todd Blanche does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under U.S. law. But it does change the way it’s regulated, shifting licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I — reserved for drugs without medical use and with high potential for abuse — to the less strictly regulated Schedule III. It also gives licensed medical marijuana operators a major tax break and eases some barriers to researching cannabis. >The Trump administration also said it was jump-starting the process for reclassifying marijuana more broadly, setting a hearing to begin in late June. This is bullshit. It only applies to medical marijuana. Is recreational still going to be treated as a schedule I? How do you only deschedule part of the industry? Edit: I should have kept reading the article. >Marijuana or marijuana-derived products that are not distributed through a state medical marijuana program will continue to be classified in Schedule I. This is laughably dumb. The same plant could be scheduled differently.

>”Trump signed an EO that can immedietly be undone by the next administration” FTFY. Can we stop pretending that this senile old man scribbling with his sharpie means anything permanent? Executive Orders are not legislation and are worth the paper they’re scribbled on.

i hate for perfect to be the enemy of good but all i see this effectively doing is allowing producers to earn more profits by finally allow tax right offs - no way that this savings makes it down to consumers.

Now how about those Epstein files?

This started under a 2022 Biden era initiative.