Advocates say officials should go further than rescheduling the drug and have called for decriminalization.
, meaning that the range of medical uses for marijuana have gone largely understudied.
The recommendation came after the Food and Drug Administration reviewed the drug based on eight criteria, according to Levine.the White House last October for HHS to consider rescheduling the drug. It came with an announcement that President Joe Biden was pardoning all prior offenses of simple marijuana possession.descheduled altogether, which would effectively decriminalize the drug at the federal level and leave regulation to the states.
Paul Armentano, deputy director of marijuana advocacy organization NORML, expressed frustration at the recommendation, per“The goal of federal cannabis policy reform ought to be to address the existing, untenable chasm between federal marijuana policy and the cannabis laws of the majority of U.S. states,” Armentano told the publication. “Rescheduling the cannabis plant to Schedule III of the US Controlled Substances Act fails to adequately address this conflict.
“Rescheduling cannabis from 1 to 3 does not end criminalization, it just rebrands it. People will still be subject to criminal penalties for mere possession, regardless of their legal status in a state-level medical program,” former NORML political director Justin Strekal
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