A leading prohibitionist group is sounding the alarm about a potentially imminent decision from the Trump administration to reschedule marijuana, and a major news organization is reporting that the president plans to issue an executive order on the policy change—but despite amplified rumors about the potential reform action, the White House tells Marijuana Moment that “no final decisions have been made.”
There’s been a swell of speculation in recent days from industry observers, as well as opponents of rescheduling such as Smart Approaches To Marijuana (SAM), that President Donald Trump would be making a decision on moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) as early as Thursday or Friday.
Those rumors became so pronounced that Kevin Sabet, president of the prohibitionist group SAM, took to X to share a video about the issue.
“If the rumors are correct,” Sabet said, “President Trump is going to call for marijuana to be rescheduled to Schedule III,” which is “obviously not an outcome we wanted.”
“But I can tell you that it’s not going to be good for our country for many reasons,” he said. “First of all, it’s going to give tax breaks to big
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