Written by JULIE A. WERNER-SIMON for Cannabis Business News
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Legalization activity continues across the U.S., but there’s been plenty of backsliding, too.
It was big news last fall when President Joe Biden pardoned federal offenders who had been charged and convicted of federal cannabis possession.
For over 50 years, since President Richard Nixon signed the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, cannabis has been a Schedule I federally controlled illegal drug, classified just like heroin and LSD. Yet, Biden’s pardon proclamation did not make cannabis federally legal. However, tucked into Biden’s 2022 executive order was something no president to date has done: Biden directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to “review” the legal classification of cannabis.
