The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) may reschedule marijuana as soon as this week, according to rumors confirmed by the offices of at least two members of the United States Senate.
In an episode of their podcast released today, the anti-marijuana organization Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) says an announcement on the DEA’s marijuana scheduling decision “could be coming this week”, with co-founder Kevin Sabet (a former White House advisor on drug policy) saying “We’re hearing a lot of chatter, even as we’re having this podcast I’m hearing from some sources that pro-marijuana Democratic senators are saying it’s very soon, as in today or tomorrow”.
Now, we’ve confirmed with the offices of two US senators that these rumors have in fact been making their way around the capitol, with one staffer saying “everything we’ve heard leads us to believe an announcement will happen real soon, as in tomorrow or sometime this week.”
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