In a historic announcement Thursday, President Joe Biden said that his administration would move to formally reschedule cannabis under federal law. The White House's move comes less than three weeks after the Justice Department confirmed that the Drug Enforcement Agency would also reclassify cannabis. In a briefing following Biden's announcement, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the reclassification a …
LOADING ERROR LOADING -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended easing restrictions on marijuana, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing a letter. In the letter addressed to the Drug Enforcement Agency administrator Anne Milgram, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine asked for marijuana to be reclassified as a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act, …
The U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs voted Wednesday to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from a category of the world’s most dangerous drugs, which could impact the global medical marijuana industry. The Vienna-based U.N. agency said in a statement that it had voted 27-25, with one abstention, to follow the World Health Organization’s recommendation to remove cannabis and cannabis resin …
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