WASHINGTON DC – A former Food and Drug Administration official says he’d be “shocked” if the DEA does not reschedule cannabis by next year’s presidential election, and that he expects the DEA will ultimately accept the recent Health and Human Services’ recommendation to ease restrictions on cannabis by reclassifying it as a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act.
Many political observers, and probably millions of voters, wonder what is going through President Biden’s head as the vast majority of the country shows support for marijuana legalization, Sklamberg also sounded dismayed.
After Ohio’s historic decision on Tuesday to legalize recreational cannabis, more than half of the country now resides in a legal weed state, having gone from 49.2% of the population to 52.7%, and up to 80% if medical marijuana states are added in. And then there’s a Gallup poll that came out this week, which showed that seven in 10 Americans of all political, racial, gender and demographic stripes now think marijuana use should be legal….
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