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Veterans groups join calls for Biden administration to reschedule marijuana

Some of the nation’s largest veterans groups are pushing the Biden administration to “expeditiously” ease federal restrictions on marijuana, joining a growing number of calls to reschedule the drug six months after the Department of Health and Human Services recommended doing…

Why Trad-Life Guys Are Fuming About Legal Weed

February 9, 2024
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Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Federal, News & Insights
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Amid speculation that the Biden administration could finally lift the federal ban on cannabis, religious culture warriors have denounced the drug A MAJORITY OF states have already legalized cannabis to some degree, and only some 10 percent of Americans believe it should remain prohibited in…

What to know about the federal government’s big changes to marijuana rules coming soon

February 5, 2024
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Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Federal
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It could come today. Or in a few weeks. Maybe within the next month. Whenever it happens, rescheduling marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act – which regulates what drugs are considered illegal and just how illegal they are – would…

Democrats urge Biden administration to deschedule marijuana

Senate Democrats are putting new pressure on the Biden administration to ease federal restrictions on marijuana in a new letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday as it considers rescheduling cannabis after it was federally classified more than five decades ago.…

Marijuana Rescheduling Under The Controlled Substances Act: Potential Impacts On Cannabis Businesses

January 26, 2024
Tariq Naeem
Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Federal
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By Tariq Naeem, Tucker Ellis LLP Marijuana advocates and businesses have cheered recent news that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) recommended to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that it reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule…

HHS Marijuana Recommendation Now on Blast

January 16, 2024
Hilary Bricken
Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Federal, Policy & Legal
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By Hilary Bricken, Attorney at Husch Blackwell In October 2022, President Biden asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Attorney General to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law. In August 2023, the HHS marijuana…

Governors Urge Biden To Reschedule Marijuana By The End Of This Year

The governors of six states have jointly written a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to ensure marijuana is rescheduled by the end of this year. The letter, signed by the governors of Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey,…

When the New Frontier of rescheduling comes, what can Cannabis cultivators learn from microbreweries?

November 29, 2023
Dave McManus
Accounting, Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Federal
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By Dave McManus With the drive to federalization starting to accelerate, momentum is building around rescheduling cannabis. This would bring a host of changes that are frequently discussed, such as easier access to capital, banking, and the removal of 280E.…

Loosening restrictions on marijuana may not be boon for reform

Federal authorities are weighing whether to stop classifying marijuana among the riskiest drugs, a move that cannabis advocates have long hoped would result in more research on its health effects, businesses having an easier time selling it and fewer people…

Marijuana rescheduling falls short of expectations on Biden

The Biden administration’s recommendation last week for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to reschedule marijuana marked one of its most significant steps related to the president’s ambitious campaign promise to decriminalize cannabis use. But advocates and policy experts say rescheduling…

NORML’s 50-Year Fight to Deschedule Cannabis

September 7, 2023
Tom Hymes
Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, News & Insights, Spotlight
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As much as NORML has been in the cannabis spotlight as the preeminent organization fighting to normalize a plant that has helped so many of us so profoundly, a whispered consensus could likely be found that its day has come…

From Schedule I to Schedule III: The Path to Success?

September 7, 2023
Jacques Santucci
Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, Op-Ed
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In a significant development, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially recommended on August, 30, 2023, that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act.…

Marijuana as Schedule III: Woe is Me?

By Hilary Bricken, Principal at Harris Bricken Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that a pretty historic announcement was made last week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS officially recommended that marijuana be…

Stock Market Explodes After Biden Administration Urges Reclassifying Cannabis

By Steve Schain Causing a day-long, double-digit Cannabis stock surge peaking at 40.56%, on August 30, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recommended that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) reschedule Marijuana from Schedule I to…

Slightly higher times: Biden administration moves to loosen weed restrictions

August 30, 2023
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The recommendation is the result of a yearlong review initiated by the president. The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is recommending that the Drug Enforcement Agency significantly loosen federal restrictions on marijuana but stopped short of advising…