{"id":188122,"date":"2024-04-25T18:29:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T23:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/bipartisan-effort-demands-dea-action-on-marijuana-scheduling"},"modified":"2024-04-25T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T23:29:28","slug":"bipartisan-effort-demands-dea-action-on-marijuana-scheduling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/bipartisan-effort-demands-dea-action-on-marijuana-scheduling","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Effort Demands DEA Action on Marijuana Scheduling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bipartisan-effort-demands-dea-action-on-marijuana-scheduling2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read how Congress is pressing the DEA to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug to Schedule III.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Marijuana is currently classified as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/drug-information\/drug-scheduling\">Schedule I drug<\/a>, meaning these are \u201cdrugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.\u201d However, a team of 21 bipartisan congressional leaders from both the Senate and House of Representatives hopes to change that as they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marijuanamoment.net\/congressional-lawmakers-demand-dea-promptly-reschedule-marijuana-regardless-of-internal-disagreement-at-the-agency\/\">recently sent a letter<\/a> to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) pushing them to \u201cpromptly remove marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)\u201d, noting that almost eight months had passed \u201csince the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommended rescheduling marijuana to Schedule III \u2014 and 18 months since President Biden directed HHS and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to begin the process of reviewing marijuana\u2019s scheduling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusdrugprevention.gov\/content\/drug-scheduling-and-penalties\">Examples<\/a> of other Schedule I drugs include heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), methaqualone, and peyote, while Schedule III drugs include Tylenol, ketamine, anabolic steroids, and testosterone. Additionally, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusdrugprevention.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-07\/Federal_Trafficking_Penalties_Chart_6-23-22.pdf\">penalties<\/a> between Schedule I and Schedule III drugs also demonstrate stark contrasts, as well.<\/p>\n<p>The 21 congressional leaders take it even farther than requesting marijuana be reclassified as a Schedule III drug, as they state, \u201cAs explained in our prior letters, while a move to Schedule III would be a meaningful improvement, the only way to remedy the most concerning consequences of marijuana prohibition is to deschedule marijuana altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read how Congress is pressing the DEA to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug to Schedule III. Marijuana is currently classified as a Schedule I drug, meaning these are \u201cdrugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.\u201d However, a team of 21 bipartisan congressional leaders from both the Senate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}