Yesterday, we asked whether the rumors were true. And the answer came straight from the Resolute Desk.
At a White House press conference on Monday morning, President Donald Trump said his administration is “looking at” moving marijuana from Schedule I, the same legal category as heroin, to the less restrictive Schedule III, and will “make a determination over the next few weeks.”
“It’s a very complicated subject,” Trump told reporters, according to Marijuana Moment. “Some people like it, some people hate it. Some people hate the whole concept of marijuana, because it does bad for the children and it does bad for people that are older than children. But we’re looking at reclassification, and we’ll make a determination over the next few weeks, and that determination, hopefully, will be the right one.”
The president, a lifelong teetotaler, said he has “heard great things” about cannabis for medical purposes like pain, but “bad things” about just about everything else. It was a far cooler tone than the confident endorsement of rescheduling he gave on the campaign trail last year.
From Rumor to Reality
As we reported yesterday, the speculation started after The Wall Street Journal revealed that earlier this month, at a $1 million-a-plate fundraiser at his Bedminster golf club, Trump told donors — including Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers — that he was interested in the change.
Multiple outlets confirmed the exchange, and Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO James Hagedorn went on record saying Trump has told him “multiple times” since January that rescheduling is coming.
Monday’s comments are the first time the president has publicly addressed cannabis since taking office this term, and they place a clear timeline on a decision that has been stalled for months inside the federal bureaucracy.
The Push and the Pushback
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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
