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Washington — 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 ...

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.

Marijuana policy could see some big changes soon, as the federal government looks to reclassify pot from a Schedule 1 drug to Schedule 3. But what does that mean? For decades, marijuana was deemed ...

On August 30, an official at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released one of the most significant announcements made at the federal level concerning marijuana ...

INDIANAPOLIS — President Donald Trump's acting attorney general has signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug. The move changes medical marijuana from a ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, Dec. 18, that reclassified marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug. Groups in Florida have pushed constitutional amendments ...

The Nevada Supreme Court will allow the state Board of Pharmacy to continue classifying marijuana as a Schedule I drug on par with heroin, in a reversal of a district judge’s previous ruling. The ...

For the first time in decades, there are positive signs that the overdose crisis is finally slowing. What’s behind this progress is subject to debate, but one of its likely drivers is policy reform.

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - The CDC reports that last year over 73,000 people died of drug overdoses. While a lot of attention is currently on fentanyl, in the past few years, a new drug has ...