The Department of Health and Human Services is recommending that marijuana be reranked as a less-dangerous and legal Schedule III drug.
Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine issued the recommendation in a letter to Drug Enforcement Agency administrator Anne Milgram,For the past five decades, marijuana has been a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act of 1971, which defines the commonly used drug as having a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical value.
Biden says he opposes marijuana legalization, despite roughly two-thirds support for the reform in national polling, but says he favors more modest decriminalization. The Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that marijuana be reclassified as a legal Schedule III drug.Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine issued the recommendation in a letter to Drug Enforcement Agency administrator Anne Milgram.Marijuana’s recreational possession and use is allowed under local law in 23 states, three US territories and the District of Columbia.
Even more states allow the drug’s use for medical reasons, though continued federal prohibition means that it technically cannot be prescribed by doctors or easily researched. Although widely legal under state law, possession of marijuana for any reason outside limited research has remained a federal crime, prompting some banks to refuse to service the quasi-legal industry.Getty Images/iStockphoto
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