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The Biden administration’s push to move marijuana to Schedule 3 of the Controlled Substances Act now has the support of 12 state attorneys general.
The AGs, all of whom represent states with legal adult-use and/or medical marijuana markets, sent a letter to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram on Friday to “encourage” the DEA to concur with federal health officials’ August recommendation to reschedule the drug.
“We see this as a public safety imperative and write in support of this policy change,” the attorneys general wrote, according to a copy of the letter posted online by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.
“While we are not all aligned on the wisdom of fully legalizing cannabis, we do agree, however, that a state-regulated cannabis industry better protects consumers than the illicit marijuana market or the unregulated intoxicating hemp-derived marketplace.”
In addition to Colorado’s Weiser, the letter was signed by:
- Rob Bonta, California.
- Anthony Brown, Maryland.
- Andrea Campbell, Massachusetts.
- Aaron Ford, Nevada.
- Michelle Henry, Pennsylvania.
- Kathleen Jennings, Delaware.
- Peter Neronha, Rhode Island.
- Matthew Platkin, New Jersey.
- Kwame Raoul, Illinois.
- Ellen Rosenblum, Oregon.
- William Tong, Connecticut.
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