Politics
Trump Says He’ll Make Marijuana Rescheduling Decision ‘Over The Next Few Weeks’
President Donald Trump says the administration will be “looking at” a proposal to reschedule marijuana and “make a determination over the next few weeks.”
Asked about recent reporting that the administration is considering the plan to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), Trump said during a White House press conference on Monday that we’re “only looking at that” and it’s too “early” to say what they’ll do about the issue, adding that “it’s a very complicated subject.”
“Some people like it. Some people hate it—people hate the whole concept of marijuana, because it does bad for the children [and] it does bad for people that are older than children,” the president said. “But we’re looking at reclassification, and we’ll make a determination over the next few weeks—and that determination, hopefully, will be the right one.”
Trump endorsed rescheduling on the campaign trail, but he appeared less willing to embrace the reform from the podium during the presser, which focused on federal intervention to address crime in Washington, D.C.
It’s a “very complicated subject is, you know, the subject of marijuana,” Trump said. “I’ve heard great things having to do with medical [cannabis], and I’ve had bad things having to do with just about everything else. But medical, for pain and various things, I’ve heard some pretty good things—but for other things, I’ve heard some pretty bad things.”
This story is developing and will be updated.
