{"id":2016791,"date":"2023-08-30T13:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-hhs-calls-for-reclassifying-marijuana-as-a-lower-risk-drug\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:28:21","slug":"biden-hhs-calls-for-reclassifying-marijuana-as-a-lower-risk-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-hhs-calls-for-reclassifying-marijuana-as-a-lower-risk-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s HHS urges reclassification of marijuana as less risky."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-hhs-calls-for-reclassifying-marijuana-as-a-lower-risk-drug%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016791&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Assistant \u200bSecretary for Health Calls for Reclassification of Marijuana<\/h2>\n<p>Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine has made \u2062a \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-defends-mara-gays-disturbing-american-flags-statement-social-media-pounds-them\/\" title=\"NYT Defends Mara Gay\u2019s \u2018Disturbing\u2019 American Flags Statement. Social Media Pounds Them.\">bold move<\/a> by urging \u200bthe Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to reclassify\u2063 marijuana\u2062 as\u2062 a lower-risk drug.\u2064 This decision could have significant implications for the legal status of cannabis across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, Levine cited a \u2063recent\u200d review by the Food and Drug \u200dAdministration (FDA) \u2063and recommended that marijuana, currently classified as\u200b a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, be downgraded to a\u200b Schedule III substance.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule I drugs, such\u200d as\u2062 heroin, are highly addictive and have no recognized\u2062 medical benefits. On the other hand, Schedule III drugs have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j-p-morgan-says-russian-economy-will-shrink-35-in-second-quarter\/\" title=\"J.P. Morgan Says Russian Economy Will Shrink 35% in Second Quarter\">lower potential<\/a>\u2064 for abuse compared to Schedule I or II substances, although they may still lead to moderate physical \u2064dependence or high psychological \u200cdependence, according to the\u200c DEA.<\/p>\n<h3>President Biden&#8217;s Support \u200bfor Marijuana Reform<\/h3>\n<p>In October 2022,\u200c President Joe Biden took a significant step towards\u2062 marijuana reform by issuing\u200d a blanket federal pardon for individuals\u200b with \u200csimple \u200cpossession charges at the \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-red-flag-laws-result-in-66-firearm-confiscations\/\" title=\"Reports: Red flag laws result in 66 firearm confiscations\">federal level<\/a>. He also\u2063 encouraged state governors to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in the\u2063 same executive\u2063 order, President Biden called\u2062 upon Health and Human \u2063Services Secretary \u2064Xavier Becerra\u2063 and Attorney\u2063 General Merrick \u200cGarland \u2064to initiate a \u200dreview process for the scheduling classification \u200bof cannabis. This review aims\u200b to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-hhs-calls-for-reclassifying-marijuana-as-a-lower-risk-drug\/\" title=\"Biden's HHS urges reclassification of marijuana as less risky.\">advance federal \u2064drug policy<\/a> and potentially pave \u2064the way\u200c for further changes in marijuana \u2064legislation.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on \u2063this topic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a> to read the full article from The \u2063Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine urged Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram to reclassify marijuana as a less risky substance. This significant step could have far-reaching consequences for the legal status of marijuana across the country. Levine&#8217;s letter proposed that cannabis, currently classified as a Schedule I drug, be reconsidered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2016792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}