Biden Admin Moves To Reclas­si­fy Mar­i­jua­na As Less Dan­ger­ous Drug

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s Drug Enforce­ment Admin­is­tra­tion (DEA) is report­ed­ly mov­ing to reclas­si­fy mar­i­jua­na as a less dan­ger­ous drug ahead of the 2024 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.
Attor­ney Gen­er­al Mer­rick Gar­land made the rec­om­men­da­tion to loosen restric­tions on the drug, The Wash­ing­ton Post report­ed.
The report­ed change would down­grade mar­i­jua­na from being a Sched­ule I drug along­side drugs like hero­in and cocaine to a Sched­ule III sub­stance, mean­ing it could be obtained with a pre­scrip­tion.
“Today, the Attor­ney Gen­er­al cir­cu­lat­ed a pro­pos­al to reclas­si­fy mar­i­jua­na from Sched­ule I to Sched­ule III,” said Jus­tice Depart­ment direc­tor of pub­lic affairs Xochitl Hino­josa. “Once pub­lished by the Fed­er­al Re …