CNN-President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday that would reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification — a move that would ease federal restrictions, though it would not mean full legalization, according to a source familiar with the planning and a senior White House official.
The order would reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug, which the Drug Enforcement Administration defines as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse,” to a Schedule III drug, which the DEA defines as having “a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence,” sources said. That reclassification could have implications for research of marijuana or use for medical purposes.
The White House official warned that while the signing was planned for Thursday, that timing could shift. Trump himself previewed that the issue was on his radar Monday, telling reporters he was considering reclassification “very strongly.”
“We are considering that because a lot of people want to see it — the reclassification, because it leads to tremendous amounts of research that can’t be done unless you reclassify. So, we are looking at that very strongly,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
A year ago, Trump had suggested his return to the White House would usher in a new era for marijuana, making it easier for adults to access safe products and giving states greater leeway to pursue legalization.
He first declared his support for changing federal marijuana policy in the 2024 presidential race amid an aggressive courtship of younger voters, saying he wanted to allow for weed companies to obtain bank accounts and for universities to research the drug.
Trump announced at the time that he intended to vote for a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana in his home state of Florida. He then added that, as president, he would “continue to focus on research to unlock the medical uses of marijuana to a Schedule 3 drug.”
Privately, the White House has spent much of 2025 researching whether and how to move ahead with rescheduling marijuana.
Trump and other officials discussed the issue at a more than two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on December 9, two sources told CNN, though no final decision was made in the immediate aftermath.
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles had previously requested affected agencies to weigh in, and their responses, compiled by Trump’s Domestic Policy Council, were presented to her over the summer.
CNN’s Steve Contorno contributed to this report.
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If u wanna make the youth happy let em smoke…It’s s strategy alot of world leaders have been leaning towards even here in the Caribbean….
As much I agree with loosing up and weed rightly in my opinion the funniest part of this order was making fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction”
#Kaiso_Thyme…
…Regardless, as to WHAT THE HELL POMPEY SAY.
…Rasta will never forget!
…how Babylon police would whip their ass
…all the time, anytime of the day
…simply for growing and smoking, puffing
…on marijuana, also known as grass
…I n I wonder, if he enjoyed those whoppings,
…to include hair trimmings and the jailings
…which helped, to destroy families
…mommy, pappy and their siblings
…some say, the system didn’t give a damn
…because, they already had a long term plan
…to control the destiny, of man!
…and, soldiers like RAWLSTON POMPEY
…were simply their Patsy’s and pawns
…kicking in, plenty Rasta back doors
…beating, slamming their heads on the floor
…now, I n I don’t believe in this thing call HELL
…but, since some like POMPEY do
…I n I, in these predicted days of ORWELL
…hope, that before many bite the dust
…and get covered up by dirt
…they’ll now recognize, and realize
…how much such ignorance was worth
…otherwise, I n I know! They’ll burn, baby burn
…in their minds, where POMPEY’S Hell resides.
…to be honest, I n I don’t give damn
..,WHAT THE HELL; nor how RAWLSTON POMPEY respond
…neither, CORNELL HUES aka TENMAN
…I n I, already know their MO
…so, tgeir response will end up in a POE
…a man must stand, as a man!
…Just like, when he’s jamming his natural IRON
…rhyming with rhythm, similar to; Mr. Edgar Allan POE!
Jumbee Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg 🦶🏾 Garrat_Bastard
Vere Edwards
Ok, just wondering with all the trade sanctions and embargoes, boats burning at sea and the blacklisting. The smuggling sounds more profitable?
@Young Antiguan Communist..:
Ah wah ah guarne..,
Here are a few things to ponder, wonder about and decider…
A…read up on the ROARING 20’s into PROHIBITION 1904 -,1945 from the establishment of the jewish state of israel, the money barons of JEKELL ISLAND off the Georgia Coast, as they established The Federal Reserve Bank which is not a US Federal Agency.
B…Next, the elimination of HEMP from the stock market, Henry Ford’s first Model T and why HEMP became the official product of the US armed forces ( George Bush often mentioned the HEMP suit which saved his life, as he jumped from a military plane).
C…the flowers from the female HEMP plant aka weed, grass, marijuana will now legally become, the highest trading commodity on WALL STREET, the same companies responsible for setting up the US dollar to be backed by BLACK GOLD – Crude oil.
D…this executive order, is to completely bring the HEMP INDUSTRY back to Wall Street legally, in order, that BANKS, other Financial Institutions, the AMA – American Medical Association to include the Insurance Companies and BIG PHARMA keep making their trillions.
This is far from a few #weed_heads getting high, stoned, IRIE_Man by smoking some form of marijuana. They are food for fodder, pawns and casualties in this never ending WAR ON DRUGS.
Here’s a piece of history for you, the very FIRST AMERICAN FLAG of Stars and Stripes made from HEMP MALE SPECIES.
Today, the HEMP INDUSTRY is leading in new materials for the Construction, Food, Pharmaceutical and Clothing Industries . HEMP SAILS powered the schooners which brought the EUROPEANS to these shores, in this hemisphere.
Live the life you love!
Love the life you live!
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg🦶🏿 Garrat_Bastard
Vere Edwards
So you want to tell me that Trump is fighting the drug barons and sending his entire military apparatus to Venezuela and in his own country he will sign Executive order to relax Marijuana for which they locked up millions black young men for smoking a joint. How hypocritical can we get. Just because the new dealers are not the black guys. And they are making billions from it. It’s all about the money. It’s all about the OIL. Trump doesn’t give a damn who smokes and who doesn’t. Who dies from crack or cocaine. As long as he can make a buck.
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