For more than 50 years, marijuana has been classified as a Schedule I drug, alongside drugs considered to have no accepted medical use, thanks to then-President Richard Nixon’s so-called War on Drugs.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Dec. 18 to federally classify marijuana as a less dangerous substance, the biggest change for the drug since 1970 and an opportunity for ...

A view of a marijuana plant in San Anselmo, California, on August 11, 2025. Reporter President Donald Trump has ordered federal restrictions on marijuana to be loosened. The executive order, signed ...

A renewed federal push to relax restrictions on marijuana likely will mean bigger profits for cannabis companies and more research into the effects of the plant, industry participants say. It may ...

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification, one of the most significant changes to drug policy in decades. “Today I’m pleased to ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the most sweeping federal shift on marijuana in decades, directing agencies to treat cannabis less like heroin and more like a tightly controlled medicine. The move ...

Other Schedule III drugs include Tylenol with codeine, testosterone, anabolic steroids and ketamine Moving the drug to a lower schedule would not change the fact that it remains illegal for ...

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients. By Jan Hoffman President Trump on Thursday ordered cannabis to ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that ...