Healthcare Strategies

HHS Petitions DEA to Reclassify Cannabis as a Schedule III Drug

September 7, 2023 - On August 30, 2023, a leaked document revealed that the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to petition the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug. Bloomberg broke the news after seeing a document sent to Anne Milgram, head of the DEA, from an official at...


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by Veronica Salib

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by Emily Sokol, MPH

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