Thank you, President Trump! He's actually following through on the thing he teased last week: Rescheduling pot from Schedule I—the most restrictive category drugs can fall into, which deems them to have high abuse potential and no accepted medical use—to Schedule III, which includes prescription drugs such as ketamine, certain steroids, and Tylenol with codeine. He signed an executive order yesterday that will downgrade the plant. The change would make it much easier to legally conduct medical research, which is how Trump's pitching it:
"We have people begging for me to do this, people that are in great pain for decades," Trump said. "This action has been requested by American patients suffering from extreme pain, incurable diseases, aggressive cancers, seizure disorders, neurological problems and more—including numerous veterans with service-related injuries and older Americans who live with chronic medical problems that severely degrade their quality of life."
