The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is recommending that the Drug Enforcement Agency significantly loosen federal restrictions on marijuana but stopped short of advising that it should be entirely removed from the Controlled Substances Act.
The health agency wants the drug moved from Schedule I to Schedule III under the CSA, potentially the biggest change in federal drug policy in decades.
HHS Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine wrote in a Tuesday letter to the DEA, first reported by Bloomberg News, that the recommendation was based on a review conducted by the Food and Drug Administration.
What would you like from him? I see that he is very aggressively chasing public favor. “his moves were less political” - so there is something you’d like him to do that wouldn’t be so popular?
By less political, I mean moves that are not meant to shake the boat, such as falling short of just outright stating that weed should be legalized.