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Marijuana meets criteria for reclassification as lower-risk drug, FDA scientific review finds

www.cnn.com Marijuana meets criteria for reclassification as lower-risk drug, FDA scientific review finds | CNN

Marijuana has a lower potential for abuse than other drugs that are subjected to the same restrictions, with some scientific support for its use as a medical treatment, researchers from the US Food and Drug Administration say in documents supporting its reclassification as a Schedule III s...

Marijuana has a lower potential for abuse than other drugs that are subjected to the same restrictions, with scientific support for its use as a medical treatment, researchers from the US Food and Drug Administration say in documents supporting its reclassification as a Schedule III substance.

Marijuana is currently classified as Schedule I, reserved for the most dangerous controlled substances, including heroin and LSD. In 2022, President Joe Biden asked US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and the attorney general to begin the administrative process of reviewing how marijuana is scheduled under federal law. HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Rachel Levine wrote a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration in August in which she supported the reclassification to Schedule III, a list that includes “drugs with a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence” such as ketamine, testosterone and Tylenol with codeine.

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Rescheduling marijuana could open up more avenues for research, allow cannabis businesses to bank more freely and openly, and have firms no longer subject to a 40-year-old tax code that disallows credits and deductions from income generated by sales of Schedule I and II substances.

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Even naming heroin and LSD in the same breath is laughably unhinged
It's inherently problematic that the DEA is in charge of scheduling

Rescheduling marijuana would likely lead to a lower budget for the DEA... No way is the DEA going to voluntarily lower the scheduling of such a widely used drug
Reminder that the most dangerous drug in terms of deaths caused per capita is alcohol. Refined sugar and HFCS probably has alcohol's numbers beat if you consider that a drug though.
It never should have been "classified" or "scheduled".

Or alcohol should be schedule 1.

Cannabis being a "schedule 1" drug (one of the safest drugs we can consume) while alcohol (an extremely dangerous [to society and individuals] drug that is also addictive) is UNSCHEDULED and PROMOTED is beyond absurd.

Make anything make sense.
Marijuana is currently classified as Schedule I, reserved for the most dangerous controlled substances, including heroin and LSD.

Fucking christ lmao.
But my profits!!!

alcohol and prison companies
Was this the review Biden asked for awhile back?
This is nothing new. Nixon commissioned a report that said the exact same thing 50 years ago.
So all the guys locked up with mandatory minimum sentences will be released now, right? Right?
i have a feeling biden will finally get this done right before the election. hopefully this will mobilize the young enough to combat the hoards of jug hooters
At this point I trust cannabis more than I trust HFC. No one is trying to sneak cannabis in my food and cannabis doesn't make me fat.
Well no shit.
2022, Biden: We need to shore up the youth support. What do youth vote for? Student loan cancelation and Marijuana reform? Let's try the former for 2022 and save the later for 2024.
Wait, Ketamine and lean are schedule three* drugs? I thought those were pretty addictive and pretty damaging?

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Glad it meets the criteria.
I thought it was the HHS, not the FDA?
This article seems to imply that stopping heavy marijuana use can lead to withdrawal symptoms.

Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on that.

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