Long Overdue: Trump Rescheduling Cannabis to Schedule III

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Long Overdue: Trump Rescheduling Cannabis to Schedule III

It was a big day for cannabis reform in the United States.

President Trump rushed to move cannabis from Schedule I down to Schedule III, unlocking benefits for cannabis business owners in states where it is legal and allowing research.

I gave some comments to The Mirror and published our press release on Consumer Choice Center’s website.

“Schedule III is not legalization—it’s the federal government finally catching up with the science and with the 38 states that already moved on from prohibition,” said Yaël Ossowski, deputy director of the Consumer Choice Center.

“For years, DEA stonewalling has done one thing above all others: hand the illicit market an unfair edge over the legal operators who actually follow the rules. Rescheduling begins to level the playing field, unlocks the medical research that patients with cancer, seizure disorders, and chronic pain have been waiting decades for, and ends a punitive 70% effective federal tax rate that no other legal industry in America pays.”

I also appeared on HillTV to discuss it just hours after Trump signed the order: