“It remains to be seen what approach President Trump’s second Administration will take toward marijuana regulation,” CRS said, adding that while the president’s first attorney general in his first term rescinded federal guidance on marijuana enforcement priorities, “the number of DEA marijuana arrests fell every year during the first Trump Administration.”
The researchers also said “it is unknown whether DOJ will finalize the proposal and, if so, what controls the agency would impose on marijuana.”
To that point, although the Justice Department started moving forward on the proposal to reclassify cannabis as a Schedule III drug under the CSA, it is ultimately up to DEA to finalize that rule. And administrative hearings on the issue have been delayed amid legal challenges.
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