As the Drug Enforcement Administration continues to pursue the rescheduling of marijuana from a Schedule I controlled substance to a Schedule III controlled substance, all eyes are on President-elect Donald Trump, whose incoming Administration will likely decide whether the proposal continues to move forward. Less than two months before the November election, Trump signaled support for rescheduling marijuana and said that he would vote for a Florida ballot initiative that would have legalized recreational weed for adults. The initiative did not pass. Despite Trump’s support for reclassifying marijuana, however, incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) was one of 25 Republicans senators who publicly opposed reclassifying the drug, signing onto a letter that said the proposal to reschedule marijuana “was not properly researched, circumvented DEA, and is merely responding to the popularity of marijuana and not the actual science.”
