Someone in the Trump administration is “holding up” the completion of a marijuana rescheduling proposal, according to a longtime advisor to the president.
It’s been more than three months since President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Justice to finalize a rule to move cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to Schedule III “in the most expeditious manner”—but that hasn’t happened.
Now, GOP operative Roger Stone is calling out the inaction.
“Who is holding up President Trump’s order to reschedule marijuana?” he said in a social media post on Thursday.
Who is holding up President Trump’s order to reschedule marijuana?
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) April 9, 2026
In a follow-up phone interview, Stone told Marijuana Moment that it’s “vitally important to get this done before the next election,” citing the significance of the cannabis issue to younger and libertarian-leaning voters that his party needs to win over and turn out in order to maintain a congressional majority.
Also on Thursday, Washington Examiner reporter Kaelan Deese asked around about Stone’s post and said that “both the White House and the DOJ tell me they’re working on this but have offered no
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