Biden Administration Moves To Lessen Restrictions On Marijuana
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
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Summary
The Department of Justice took a significant step on Tuesday to downgrade federal restrictions on marijuana. The DOJ submitted a formal recommendation to the White House to reclassify it as a Schedule III drug. It’s a monumental shift in federal drug policy because, for more than 50 years, the U.S. government has considered marijuana to be among the most dangerous drugs, on par with heroin and LSD. Krishna Andavolu, the host and executive producer of the Vice TV show Weediquette, explains what reclassification could mean for businesses, medicine, and criminal justice.
And in headlines: The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial fined the former president $9,000 for violating a gag order, police arrested students that had occupied Hamilton Hall on Columbia University’s campus, and a key federal task force issued new recommendations for women and breast cancer screenings.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 1st. I'm Priaka Arabindy. |
| 0:04.2 | And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is what a day, |
| 0:07.4 | where we ask hard questions like Barbara Streisand, |
| 0:11.0 | who posted on Melissa McCarthy's Instagram. |
| 0:14.0 | Did you take Ozmpic? |
| 0:15.3 | Yeah, except when we are asking the hard questions, |
| 0:17.9 | it is typically not in public like that, |
| 0:21.0 | usually on a side text. But anyways anyways thank you Babs for your investigative journalism okay? |
| 0:27.6 | Seriously. On today's show police clashed with protesters on Columbia's campus overnight, |
| 0:36.6 | and former President Trump gets threatened with jail time. |
| 0:40.1 | But first, the Department of Justice took a significant step Tuesday to downgrade federal restrictions on marijuana. |
| 0:47.0 | The Department of Justice submitted a recommendation to the White House to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. |
| 0:55.0 | And it's a really monumental shift in federal drug policy. |
| 0:58.6 | Because for more than 50 years, the federal government has considered weed to be among the |
| 1:02.2 | most hazardous drugs. |
| 1:04.0 | It's classified as Schedule 1 alongside heroin and LSD, which means it's considered to have no |
| 1:09.4 | medical benefits and a high potential for abuse. But now the government wants to downgrade it to a |
| 1:15.4 | Schedule 3 drug putting it on par with prescription drugs like ketamine, |
| 1:19.6 | anabolic steroids, and testosterone. It has been known for a while that weed is not really on par at all with the other Schedule |
| 1:29.3 | one drugs. |
| 1:31.3 | This shift has been a long time coming, but it actually really is monumental for so many reasons. |
| 1:36.5 | Potentially has massive implications for everything from criminal justice, medical research, |
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