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In a major change to federal marijuana policy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order in December to classify marijuana as a less dangerous substance. On Dec. 18, the president ordered the ...

For more than 50 years, marijuana has been classified as a Schedule I drug, alongside drugs considered to have no accepted medical use, thanks to then-President Richard Nixon’s so-called War on Drugs.

Pennsylvania lawmakers who are in favor of easing marijuana restrictions say President Trump's executive order rescheduling marijuana to a lower drug classification provides them with new optimism ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Dec. 18 to federally classify marijuana as a less dangerous substance, the biggest change for the drug since 1970 and an opportunity for ...

Aaron Navarro is a CBS News digital reporter. He covered the 2024 elections and was previously an associate producer for the CBS News political unit in the 2021 and 2022 election cycles. Washington — ...

President Trump has signed an executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Message to Ken Burns: What Lincoln said about our founders on slavery The incident that prompted ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday that would reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification — a move that would ease federal restrictions, though it would not ...

Recreational use of cannabis is legal in 24 of the 50 US states - The Austin American-Statesman/Hearst Newspapers Donald Trump is poised to reclassify marijuana’s legal status to match ...

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