Marijuana Scheduling

Attorney Matthew C. Zorn filed a complaint Friday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. against the Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS) demanding that it produce a requested copy of the letter issuing the cannabis scheduling review directive. What happened...

Remember last October when President Biden announced pardons for all federal marijuana possession convictions and called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review cannabis classification under federal law as a Schedule 1 substance? It turns out, the letter issuing the...

Xavier Becerra, Biden's secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) signaled this week that marijuana's federal scheduling status is not likely to be reviewed prior to 4/20, the unofficial cannabis holiday, reported Marijuana Moment. In a recent interview with KDKA-TV Becerra...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers wrote a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to deschedule marijuana and remove it from the Controlled Substances Act,  reported Politico. The letter, authored by Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), ...