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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Trump administration moves to ease federal restrictions on marijuana

A person holding marijuana buds in their hand.
Marijuana’s reclassification to a lower tier will not immediately legalize it. Photograph: Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

The Trump administration has moved to reclassify marijuana, more than four months after Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the attorney general to move it from schedule I to schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act.

The schedule I classification meant marijuana was alongside heroin, LSD, MDMA and synthetic opioids, whereas a schedule III classification put it in the same category as ketamine, anabolic steroids and testosterone.

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