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How marijuana reclassification could impact users, research

Season 2025 Episode 232 | 6m 29s

President Trump has promised answers soon on a potential shift in national drug policy. Last year, the Biden administration proposed moving marijuana from the DEA's Schedule 1 to Schedule 3, which wouldn’t make it legal on the federal level but would ease federal restrictions. John Yang discussed what that long-anticipated change could mean with Beau Kilmer of RAND's Drug Policy Research Center.

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