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Pardons, Descheduling and the DEA

Pardons, descheduling and the DEA: Making sense of Biden's weed actions
Here’s a look at what Joe Biden’s executive actions do — and don’t do — and what it could mean for America’s burgeoning multibillion-dollar marijuana markets.
President Joe Biden’s mass pardon Thursday of thousands of cannabis offenders and push to review marijuana’s status under federal law is potentially the biggest shift in federal policy in more than half a century.

The move is particularly striking for the former senator who was instrumental in ratcheting up drug-related incarceration in the 1990s, and whose administration has punished employees for marijuana use.

But some cannabis advocates question whether the sweeping pre-election decision will actually accomplish much.

“This is a really major change of pace for him [on cannabis policy],” said David Holland, an attorney at Prince Lobel Tye in New York who has worked on clemency applications for federal marijuana prisoners and a petition to move cannabis to a less restrictive category. But “this is so small in the world of restorative justice in cannabis.”

Here’s a look at what Biden’s executive actions do — and don’t do — and what it could mean for America’s burgeoning multi-billion-dollar marijuana markets.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/07/biden-weed-executive-action-dea-00060978