A newly formed coalition of marijuana businesses and advocacy organizations is making the case that the Biden administration really only has two viable choices when it comes to its ongoing federal scheduling review: remove cannabis from the list of banned substances altogether or reschedule it—the less ideal option of the two, but one that the group says would still come with significant benefits.
The Coalition for Cannabis Scheduling Reform (CCSR), which launched earlier this month, published a report on Monday that outlines the scientific, economic and societal considerations that are going into the scheduling review that President Joe Biden directed late last year.
While advocates—as well as the public overall—has come to embrace full legalization (i.e. descheduling), the new organization is hoping to influence the conversation in a way that acknowledges the potential opportunities that would come with an administrative decision to more incrementally move marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to Schedules III-V.
The report aims to illustrate those benefits, even as the coalition continues to push for complete descheduling.
The final decision isn’t up to the president in this situation. The first step will be for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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