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Cannabis Today: The Rescheduling Era
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What happened
By the 2020s, a majority of U.S. states had legalized medical or recreational cannabis even as it remained illegal federally. In 2024 the U.S. moved to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to the far less restrictive Schedule III — a historic acknowledgment of its medical value.
Why it matters
After nearly a century of prohibition, cannabis is being rewritten in law as medicine and a regulated product — one of the fastest reversals in modern drug policy.