Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine asked Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, a move that would have major implications for the legal status of the popular drug nationwide.
Levine recommended in a letter that cannabis, which is a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, be downgraded to a Schedule III substance based on a recent Food and Drug Administration review of the substance, according to Bloomberg.Schedule I drugs include highly addictive substances that have no legal medical purpose, such as heroin.
In the same executive order, Biden asked Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Attorney General Merrick Garland to initiate a review process of the scheduling classification of cannabis to progress federal drug policy.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
WH Press Secretary Refuses to Explain the Biden Brand to ReportersWhite House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday she would not explain to reporters what the 'Biden brand' is.
Read more »
GOP lawmakers slam Biden commerce secretary, see 'appeasement strategy' in China tripHouse lawmakers slammed Biden's commerce secretary for her trip to China this week, calling it a 'continued concession' to the Chinese Communist Party.
Read more »
Biden Commerce Secretary Holds Four-Hour Meeting in China with No Clear ResultsBiden's U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo visited Beijing on Tuesday and met with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng.
Read more »
Hunter Biden investigation: Business boomed after Joe Biden attended two key dinnersAfter then-Vice President Joe Biden attended one dinner in April 2015 with Hunter Biden and his foreign business associates from Ukraine and Kazakhstan, business between those two countries appeared to flourish.
Read more »
Biden investigation: Republicans request Air Force Two records from Biden's time as vice presidentHouse Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), a member of the committee, wrote a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration requesting unrestricted access to Air Force Two records from when Joe Biden was vice president.
Read more »