Huge news yesterday. Huge! The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has officially recommended that marijuana be rescheduled, from Schedule I to Schedule III of the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). This means that the country’s top health agency has finally conceded that cannabis has medical value, and isn’t a drug of abuse on par with fentanyl or heroin. We haven’t yet seen the HHS letter so we’re not sure what changed from the last “medical and scientific” evaluation undertaken by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and HHS in 2015, but hey, we’ll take it.
Griffen Thorne in our office recently predicted that administrative action, and not Congressional action, would be the course of reform at hand. Kudos to him and others who shared that view. Rescheduling is not the best possible outcome, however. It’s really not. We’d like to see marijuana descheduled entirely, like alcohol or tobacco– which are demonstrably harmful substances. Still, moving marijuana down to Schedule III would be monumental progress.
The internet is full of hot takes on yesterday’s news, of course. They range from 0% accurate to 100% accurate. This blog post aims to dispel a few myths around rescheduling, and trot
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