It’s been about three months since President Donald Trump said he’d be making a final decision on a pending marijuana rescheduling proposal within weeks—and a White House spokesperson tells Marijuana Moment that the process remains “ongoing.”
Amid contentious debates in Congress over a ban on most consumable hemp products that was signed by Trump on Wednesday, some have been left wondering what, if anything, the president’s support for that policy change means for the plan to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
Asked about the issue, a White House spokesperson didn’t directly respond to reports about Trump’s hemp position but told Marijuana Moment on Wednesday that “there is a process ongoing regarding the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on rescheduling marijuana from May 2024 and all policy and legal requirements and implications are being considered.”
Trump endorsed rescheduling—as well as marijuana industry banking access and a Florida adult-use legalization initiative that ultimately failed—on the campaign trail ahead of his election to a second term. But when he was pressed on the status of the rescheduling process in mid-August, he was less clear about his personal stance.
The administration was “only looking at that”
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