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Today, Explained

Weed did it, Joe

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The federal government has moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous controlled substance. Politico cannabis policy reporter Natalie Fertig explains why it is and isn’t a big deal. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When was the last time you noticed a federal comment period?

0:04.8

You know the type, federal government is passing a law or changing a rule and they want to hear

0:09.6

what you think about it.

0:11.0

Well, one of those comment periods kicks off today and runs for

0:14.8

the next two months and it's a big one. The federal government wants to know

0:20.9

what you think about their plan to reschedule

0:24.1

marijuana. Not what time you take your smoke breaks, Picoli.

0:28.1

Sorry I'm late, it's just like this new schedule is totally confusing. The federal government is basically

0:34.0

trying to re-categorize weed and it could happen as soon as election day. The

0:40.1

president says it's a big deal. This is monumental.

0:43.5

But we reached out to a cannabis policy reporter at Politico

0:47.0

to ask if she thought it was monumental,

0:49.8

and she said yes, but also no.

0:55.6

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