Biden-Harris make desperate marijuana move, as rule of law goes to pot
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With only three months until the election, the Biden administration is attempting to score political points by launching a proceeding to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana. Unable to satisfy either the legal or scientific standards for making this change, the Biden-Harris administration is engaging in a cynical shell game, rewriting the rules and ignoring the science to achieve its partisan objective.
Federal law — the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 — requires that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) classify drugs according to a five-tier scheduling system. Schedule I drugs are those that have no currently accepted medical use and present high potential for abuse and dependence, and their production and distribution are generally prohibited under federal law.
In contrast, drugs that have an accepted medical use are placed
