Today, six former state cannabis regulators submitted a comment to Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Administrator Ann Milgram, supporting the agency’s proposed rule to reschedule cannabis to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The former regulators from Nevada, Massachusetts, Maine, California, Minnesota, and Washington, represent former public officials who were directly responsible for oversight of both medical and adult-use cannabis marketplaces across the United States and have first-hand experience with the challenges faced by having cannabis listed currently as a Schedule I drug.

President Biden announced his Administration was formally beginning to reschedule cannabis from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3. That’s good, right? Well…maybe. I guess it is more complicated than that.