Moving marijuana to Schedule 3 of the Controlled Substances Act, as Biden administration health officials have recommended, violates U.S. promises to other countries.
That’s what three Republican U.S. senators – led by former presidential nominee Mitt Romney of Utah – told U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram on Wednesday.
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President Joe Biden’s October 2022 directive to reexamine marijuana’s status under federal law led to an August 2023 recommendation by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to downgrade the drug from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3.
But doing so – according to the letter from Sens. Romney, Pete Ricketts of Nebraska and Jim Risch of Idaho – would contradict earlier DEA determinations that “requires it to classify marijuana as a
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