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Joint Decision: Marijuana Reclassification Rolls Forward

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ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The Drug Enforcement Agency considers a new recommendation on marijuana policy. Justice Clarence Thomas documents private jet flights paid for by an influential billionaire. And a fire in what was supposed to be a vacant Johannesburg building kills dozens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Friday, September 1st, and the feds are going to have to make a blunt assessment.

0:05.0

You start here.

0:06.3

Marijuana is not a high priority for Washington, but now it could be treated like a way softer

0:13.8

drug.

0:14.8

It would be categorized in the same category as a ketamine or testosterone.

0:19.3

Some experts say this is gonja effect the entire cannabis industry.

0:23.4

Clarence Thomas finally admits on paper he's been getting three flights from a rich friend.

0:28.1

In the past year he took five flights on Harlan Crowe's plane.

0:33.0

A series of reports might have forced his aunt, and the building was supposed to be empty

0:37.9

so why are dozens of people dead?

0:40.4

The lesson for us is that we've got to address this problem.

0:45.0

A tragic fire raises alarms in South Africa.

0:50.3

From ABC News, this is Stark Here.

0:53.0

I'm Brad Milky.

0:58.6

For several years now, one of the best performing political candidates in the nation has been

1:05.5

marijuana.

1:07.0

Recreational marijuana use is legal in Missouri.

1:10.5

The legalization of marijuana in the state of Maryland.

1:13.0

It's the end of this prohibition error that we've been in in New Jersey.

1:16.5

In state after state, when faced with the question, should cannabis be legalized, voters

1:21.1

have repeatedly answered yes, but it's easy to forget that at the federal level marijuana

1:26.2

is still considered a schedule one narcotic.

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