Slightly higher times: Biden administration moves to loosen weed restrictions

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The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is recommending that the Drug Enforcement Agency significantly loosen federal restrictions on marijuana but stopped short of advising that it should be entirely removed from the Controlled Substances Act.

The health agency wants the drug moved from Schedule I to Schedule III under the CSA, potentially the biggest change in federal drug policy in decades.

HHS Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine wrote in a Tuesday letter to the DEA, first reported by Bloomberg News, that the recommendation was based on a review conducted by the Food and Drug Administration.

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I am pretty sure he didn't actually promise it. I know he said he supports decriminalization and getting it rescheduled to Schedule 2, but I am pretty confident he never went out and said "I will get it moved to schedule 2" or anything along those lines.

I have seen a lot of people say about what he promised to do while campaigning but I am pretty sure it is mostly people taking him saying he wants to do something and reading it as him saying "I will do this". Joe Biden has been in politics a very long time and knows what the president can and can't do, I doubt he overpromised.

It isn't like he ran as a progressive, he didn't make a ton of big promises while campaigning. It was basically him saying "I will make things somewhat normal" after the Trunp presidency.

Nothing will fundamentally change

I agree with you, at least under Joe Biden. And I hate that nothing will change under Joe Biden. I'm just saying that he didn't advertise himself on things changing. He advertised himself as being sane and stable compared to Donald Trump. Which he has pretty much fulfilled.

Nobody here is really defending Joe Biden or making excuses for him. We just acknowledge who he is as a politician. Personally, considering Joe Biden's track record on drugs/weed, I'm pleased with what he has done and with this. It isn't what I want, but this was a man who wrote anti-drug legislation while in Congress, this is more than I'd have expected from him if you asked me prior to him running for President.

Well said. I personally would want a much more progressive president. But, given his track record, I had very, very low expectations for him. I'm happy to say that he has exceeded my expectations, which is nice. But, there's still a lot more that could be done.