President-elect Donald Trump is expected to come to the White House with a laundry list of policies he wants to change or reverse. The Biden administration has moved to ease longtime restrictions on cannabis — so, what might Trump’s arrival mean for the push to legalize marijuana?
There are signs that cannabis could be a rare issue on which Trump carries a Biden policy forward.
President Biden’s administration has proposed removing marijuana from the list of Schedule I controlled substance and making it a Schedule III drug, a category that acknowledges medical benefits. Along with its implications for potential markets and consumers, the move would boost medical research into cannabis.
David Culver, the senior vice president of public affairs of the U.S. Cannabis Council lobbying group, tells NPR that he’s optimistic the new administration will take a similar approach to cannabis.
“We didn’t see a lot of activity from President Trump, if any at all, on cannabis reform” in his first term, Culver says. “But I think this time is going to be different.”
What has Trump said about marijuana?
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