Stoner's Guide to What It Means to Reschedule Marijuana

Ever since the Santa Monica Observer published a report earlier this week claiming a loose-lipped attorney for the U.S Drug Enforcement Administration told them that the agency is planning to downgrade the cannabis plant to a Schedule II at the beginning of August, a large majority of the stoner nation has been going on a wild and rampant social media posting tangent, spreading a misguided message that marijuana will soon be legal in all 50 states.

Although a recent interview with DEA Staff Coordinator Russ Baer neither confirms nor discounts the Observer’s report, it suggests the agency feels its decision over whether to put marijuana into a Schedule II classification is one of great difficulty because the cannabis plant “has hundreds of chemical actors, or cannabinoids,” which makes it challenging for them to “identify the parts of the plant that might have benefit, and separating out...

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