Hey there, from CNN. I'm David Rind with the five things you need to know for Thursday, April 23rd.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has signed an order to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug.

Blanche posted on X that the change, quote, will enable more targeted, rigorous research and expand patients' access to treatment.

To be clear, this order does not make recreational use legal under federal law.

Instead, it moves licensed medical marijuana from Schedule 1, the category for the most restricted drugs such as heroin and ecstasy, to Schedule 3.

That's the same category as some prescription medicines, including ketamine and Tylenol with codeine.

The reclassification will also give tax breaks

to license medical marijuana dealers

and eases some restrictions on research,

which CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta says

has been an issue for decades.

There's been this conundrum, I think, with cannabis research.

Hey, look, we will think about allowing more medical applications if we have the research done,

but at the same time, when it's a Schedule 1, it's already been preordained as having no medicinal

use.

So I think for researchers for a long time, they've been sort of caught in this, in the middle of that.

I think this will help change that.

Blanche says the Drug Enforcement Administration will also hold administrative hearings

before a judge on reclassifying marijuana more broadly.

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