It's the Brian Lara Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. So you know that cannabis or marijuana is now legal for adult recreational use, not just medical, in about half the states now, right?

Basically, the whole northeast from Virginia,

if you can count that as the Northeast Quadrant,

up through Maine, except for New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, the whole northeast except for those two states,

and also the whole west coast and some other western states, but still in half the states,

mostly in the south and Midwest, it's still not. But could this be the year

that marijuana becomes legal nationwide? Maybe, and the election year might have something to do with it.

The Biden administration is reportedly taking steps to reclassify cannabis in a way that will help

the businesses in legal states and will also facilitate medical research and Senate

majority leader Chuck Schumer just announced two bills to end different aspects

of federal prohibition. by our country's failed war on drugs.

The consequences of this harmful campaign linger on to this very day.

I was pleased by yesterday's news that the DEA under the Biden administration is preparing to take a truly

historic step rescheduling cannabis from a Schedule 1 substance to a

Schedule 3 under the Controlled Substances Act.

Reclassifying cannabis is necessary, and it's a long overdue step.

We will give you details of what Congress is going to do as we go.

That was Schumer on Wednesday.

But federal cannabis policy is not all going in one direction.

Politico has a story now called Seize All Cannabis inside the surprising federal

crackdown on New Mexico weed farmers and those farmers were going legally

based on New Mexico's legal cannabis law, but political also has a story called

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