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President Donald Trump is weighing whether or not to reclassify marijuana as a much less harmful drug, based on a report.
Trump instructed attendees at a $1 million-a-plate fundraiser at his New Jersey golf membership earlier this month he was thinking about making a change to the plant’s classification, The Wall Avenue Journal reported, citing sources accustomed to the matter.
This comes after hashish corporations have dedicated tens of millions of {dollars} to the president’s political teams, based on the report.
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President Donald Trump is weighing whether or not to reclassify marijuana as a much less harmful drug. (Getty Pictures)
The company at Trump’s fundraiser included Kim Rivers, chief government of Trulieve, one of many largest marijuana corporations. Rivers urged the president to make the change and develop medical marijuana analysis, the newspaper famous.
The potential transfer to take away marijuana from the record of Schedule I managed substances and make it a Schedule III drug would make it considerably simpler to purchase and promote hashish and make the trade extra worthwhile.
Eradicating marijuana from the record of Schedule I managed substances and making it a Schedule III drug would make it simpler to purchase and promote hashish. (Reuters / Reuters Images)
The Biden administration had begun pursuing the reclassification of marijuana however didn’t enact the change earlier than leaving workplace.
There have additionally been a number of payments launched in Congress by Democrats and Republicans to both decrease the classification of marijuana to a Schedule III drug or take away it from the record of managed substances altogether. Federal lawmakers have additionally sought to decriminalize the plant.
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Trump instructed attendees at a fundraiser earlier this month he was thinking about making a change to the plant’s classification. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
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However these measures haven’t been signed into legislation.
No less than 40 states have legalized medical marijuana, whereas 24 states and Washington, D.C., have additionally legalized leisure marijuana.
The Wall Avenue Journal contributed to this report.
