A group of 12 Democratic U.S. senators are urging the Drug Enforcement Administration this week to act on cannabis and fully legalize it.
Led by Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and John Fetterman (D-Penn.), the senators sent a letter signed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), to Attorney General Merrick Garland and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram on Monday. They also asked for more insight on the agency’s scheduling review of cannabis.
The new push from Congress members follows the release of documents related to the U.S. government's ongoing review of the status of cannabis under federal law earlier this month. That move confirmed for the first time that the Department of Health and Human Services recommended the DEA reschedule cannabis as Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act.
"The DEA should deschedule marijuana altogether," the senators said ...