DEA to consider loosening federal marijuana restrictions

By Brett Rowland | The Daily Signal

The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to hold a formal hearing next week on its plan to reschedule marijuana at the federal level.

The proposal is to move marijuana from a Schedule I drug, along with heroin and LSD, to Schedule III, where it would join ketamine and anabolic steroids.

In May, the Department of Justice announced that it had submitted a rule that would ease restrictions on cannabis, but the change falls short of the full legalization or decriminalization sought by some advocates.

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