The Trump administration’s drug czar is clarifying that move to federally reschedule marijuana doesn’t make cannabis broadly legal.
“It’s still illegal,” Sara Carter Bailey, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), said in an interview with Newsmax this week. “Executive-level Schedule III allows for doctors and research and for medicine, for medicinal purposes.”
She was answering a reporter’s question about the potency of marijuana products during an interview about the administration’s new National Drug Control Strategy.
That document, released this week, raises alarm about “high-potency” marijuana and expresses concerns that international cartels and crime groups “exploit” state cannabis legalization laws. It also discusses the forthcoming federal recriminalization of hemp THC products that is scheduled for later this year under a law signed by President Donald Trump.
In the Newsmax interview, Carter went on to say that “we also have a problem out there with illicit marijuana grows.”
“These are grows that are connected directly to the [Chinese Communist Party], grows connected directly to Sinaloa cartel and [Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación], and we’ve seen the potency go as high as 90 percent in some products,” she said. “So we are watching that. We’re monitoring that, and our
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