"Some view marijuana rescheduling as politically calculated, aimed at reclaiming the popular support that Trump held last year, particularly among Gen Z voters, whose support for the president has hemorrhaged amid rising unaffordability and a series of foreign-policy choices, beginning with U.S. strikes on Iran-which many Americans correctly perceived to have been on behalf of a foreign government rather than our own-and escalating with more recent U.S. military action near Venezuela."
"With about 71 percent of adults under 30 saying marijuana should be legal for both recreational and medical use, rescheduling could provide the administration with a legislative accomplishment to woo back Gen Z, a demographic for which it otherwise has little to point to, and a potential way to win back lost ground before the midterms."
"will make it far easier to conduct marijuana-related medical research, allowing us to study benefits, potential dangers, and future treatments."
President Donald Trump signed an executive order moving marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under federal law. The reclassification removes marijuana from the same category as heroin and ecstasy and aims to ease federal restrictions that impeded cannabis companies' access to the U.S. banking system and forced reliance on higher-cost financing. The order is presented as a way to facilitate marijuana-related medical research by enabling studies of benefits, risks, and future treatments. Rescheduling also carries political implications, potentially courting younger voters and reflecting sustained engagement with cannabis industry executives.
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