{"id":4940,"date":"2022-12-07T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2025-02-25T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:24:12","slug":"to-reschedule-or-deschedule-the-2-pathways-to-cannabis-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/to-reschedule-or-deschedule-the-2-pathways-to-cannabis-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"To Reschedule or Deschedule: The 2 Pathways to Cannabis Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fall, when President Biden announced his plan to reform U.S. cannabis policy federally, it included a call to review how cannabis is scheduled under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/drug-information\/csa\">Controlled Substances Act (CSA)<\/a>. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CSA, which is regulated by the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, places all regulated substances into one of five schedules. The scheduling placement is based on the following:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The substance&#8217;s actual or relative potential for abuse<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientific evidence of its pharmacological effect, if known<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state of current scientific knowledge regarding the drug or other substance<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its history and current pattern of abuse<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scope, duration, and significance of abuse<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What, if any, risk there is to public health<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its psychic or physiological dependence liability<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether the substance is an immediate precursor of a substance already controlled under this subchapter<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>Cannabis is difficult to place in one category of drugs because it has a wide range of effects, including the ability to depress, excite, and temporarily impair the central nervous system. Its medical value also has the risk of abuse. When seeking to<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> find a drug or product\u2019s medical value, a drug must have large-scale clinical trials to back it up\u2014similar to what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would expect from any other drug entering the market. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the CSA, it is not clearly defined which<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> federal agencies are responsible for classifying drugs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4944\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/reschedvsdeschedule-infographic.jpg\" alt=\"Pathways to Cannabis Legalization\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/reschedvsdeschedule-infographic.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/reschedvsdeschedule-infographic-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/reschedvsdeschedule-infographic-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/reschedvsdeschedule-infographic-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Is the Fight to Reschedule Cannabis Worth It?<\/b><\/h2>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The laws and regulations surrounding cannabis are confusing. If it is federally illegal, how do states have the right to allow it? Would moving marijuana from the Schedule I category to a different bracket make it more likely to become legal in the United States? If the federal government is going to continue to allow states to make individual decisions about marijuana, regardless if it is categorized as Schedule I, is the fight to have it reclassified worth it?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Essentially, the schedule class given by the CSA does not interfere with the authority to keep marijuana enterprises open. Schedule I substances cannot be purchased legally in the United States. Schedule II drugs, such as morphine and fentanyl, are still considered to be dangerous drugs but are allowed to be prescribed for medical conditions. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If cannabis is moved to Schedule II, the concern is that the administrative change will make marijuana pharmaceuticals legal. This would require all products to be removed from the market until FDA approval is granted. FDA approval and clinical drug testing is not a small bump in the road\u2014the approval often takes years and extremely large amounts of money.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h2><b>What Drugs Have Been Rescheduled?<\/b><\/h2>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several drugs have been rescheduled or reclassified. This is most commonly seen with medications that were once required to be given with a prescription but reclassified to over-the-counter. In<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2014, the DEA reclassified the drug hydrocodone, moving it from Schedule III to Schedule II. But on the whole, reclassifying or unscheduling a substance is rather rare, and this has led to many controversies surrounding the CSA.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research on the effect of reclassifying drugs shows that when a drug is reclassified to a more restrictive schedule, the use of the drug goes down. That is expected. The more barriers to the drug, the fewer users there will be. While this may seem like the intended outcome, it was also projected that negative outcomes can arise if the drug has too many barriers for patients to access. This is because patients in need of the substance who are unable to afford to see a prescribing doctor or have insurance to pay for prescription medication will be unable to obtain it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>Federal<a href=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/new-study-once-again-validates-americans-support-for-cannabis-reform\/\"> cannabis reform<\/a> is tricky business. Though there seem to be more questions than answers at this point, the last decade has demonstrated how rapidly this industry can evolve. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/new-poll-shows-57-of-americans-want-legal-cannabis\/\">Most Americans<\/a> agree that cannabis policy needs to change, but the path to reform is far from straightforward.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This article was originally written by <\/span><\/i><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/authors\/natasha-winkler\/\">Natasha Winkler<\/a><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and published on 2\/17\/20. Updated on 12\/7\/22.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, when President Biden announced his plan to reform U.S. cannabis policy federally, it included a call to review how cannabis is scheduled under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The CSA, which is regulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), places all regulated substances into one of five schedules. The scheduling placement is based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":25505,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[55,12919,13609,13221,13156],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-cannabis-legalization","tag-cannabis-policy","tag-drug-schedules","tag-federal-cannabis-reform","tag-legalize-cannabis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cannabis Reform: Reschedule or Deschedule?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are 2 cannabis reform routes. 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