The Biden administration is taking concrete steps to reclassify marijuana, which is labeled as a Schedule I drug, alongside heroin and LSD.
On Tuesday, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it intends to change the drug’s classification to be a Schedule III drug, on par with ketamine and some anabolic steroids. The change comes two years after President Joe Biden first called for a review of federal marijuana laws. Meanwhile, 38 states have legalized medical marijuana use, and 24 have legalized its recreational use.
“Criminal records for marijuana use and possession have imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities,” Biden said in December. “Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana. It’s time that we right these wrongs.”
Biden has already pardoned thousands of people convicted at the federal level of simple possession
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