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Current events of Cannabis reschedueling

“Marijuana Rescheduling Update.”  Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC , 15 Sept. 2025,  www.bipc.com/marijuana-rescheduling-update .          The article I just read called, "Marijuana Rescheduling Update" written by Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney PC talks about the current news surrounding, " nine Republican members of Congress sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi opposing rescheduling cannabis under the Controlled Substances Act." It also goes further into detail about the proposal talking about how rescheduling the drug to schedule III could provide tax breaks to companies that sell and grow medical and recreational marijuana would be able to receive tax breaks, due to the fact that while the substance is still federally illegal, even though more than half the states in the US have legalized it for either medical or recreational use. To further build on this, with marijuana being a schedule one drug it has no opportunities to be used medic...
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The Controlled Substances Act of 1970

  "The Controlled Substances Act (CSA): A Legal Overview for the 119th Congress."  Congress.gov , Library of Congress, 18 September 2025, https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45948.      The article titled, “The Controlled Substances Act (CSA): A Legal Overview for the 119th Congress”, that was written by the Congressional Research Service in my own summarization discusses  the 1970 controlled substances act, which is one of if not the most important historical events that has affected the laws surrounding cannabis, making it federally illegal in the entire United States of Americans. This law also affected nearly any of the “controlled substances”  today which range from cold medicine to methamphetamine. This act as quoted by the article is stated to, “To regulate certain drugs and other substances that are deemed to pose a risk of abuse and dependence.” This in short was to try to stop mass use of substances of all kind. This wasn’t the first law su...
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