Rescheduling is more of the same. Only a few benefit.

Descheduling cannabis makes life better for: consumers, workers and small businesses/producers.

43,000 Public Comments

Reschedule to Schedule 3

  • 23% in favor of Schedule 3

Deschedule

  • 69% in favor of Deschedule [1], [2]

State-Federal Conflicts

Reschedule to Schedule 3

  • Perpetuates the current "half-in, half-out regime" with ongoing legal uncertainty [1]

Deschedule

  • Eliminates federal criminal penalties for cannabis possession, distribution, and cultivation [1], [2], [3], [4]

  • Enables coherent regulatory frameworks [1]

  • Provides legal certainty for businesses, consumers, financial institutions, and governmental agencies [1]

Banking and Financial Services

Reschedule to Schedule 3

  • The Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering laws still apply to cannabis businesses  [1], [2]

  • Maintains barriers to traditional banking services [1], [2]

Deschedule

  • Removes compliance risks for financial institutions.  [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]

  • Businesses access traditional banking services, credit card processing, and business loans  [1]

Prescription Drug Model

Reschedule to Schedule 3

  • Fundamentally incompatible with existing state cannabis programs [1]

  • Only FDA-approved cannabis products with pharmacy distribution  [1]

Deschedule

  • Cannabis based drugs face the same, existing FDA process as any other new drug

  • Non-FDA-approved cannabis products still available [1]

Criminal Justice Reform

Reschedule to Schedule 3

  • Does not address the past injustices inflicted on American people [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

Deschedule

  • Comprehensive criminal justice reform [1], [2], [3]

Research & Medical Access

Reschedule to Schedule 3

  • Improves research access, but sources limited to federal supplies [1], [2]

Deschedule

  • Removes all federal barriers to cannabis research  [1]

  • Universities and research institutions could freely study cannabis using products from state-legal sources  [1]

Economic Benefits

Reschedule to Schedule 3

  • Access to standard business tax deductions (No 280E) but no banking services [1], [2], [3], [4]

  • Continued restrictions and uncertainty associated with lack of Descheduling [1], [2], [3], [4]

Deschedule

  • Businesses avoid complex pharmaceutical regulations  [1]

  • Access to standard business tax deductions (No 280E) and banking services  [1]

  • Unleashes vast economic and social potential (revenues, jobs, taxes, LE cost savings, exports, American leadership) [1]

  • IP consolidation [1], [2]

Consumers

Reschedule to Schedule 3

  • Medical use only [1]

  • Prescription required  [1], [2]

  • State laws may vary [1]

  • At odds with federal law [1]

  • Adult use consumers not helped

Deschedule

  • No federal restrictions on either medical or adult use [1]

  • Access subject to state laws [1]

Employees

Reschedule to Schedule 3

  • Limited protections, e.g., OSHA, EEOC [1]

  • Workplace policies may restrict use [1]

Deschedule

  • No federal penalties [1]

  • Standard workplace policies (OSHA, EEOC) [1]

Producers

Reschedule to Schedule 3

  • Strict federal oversight [1]

  • State-by-state markets [1]

  • Tax benefits [1]

  • Lack of banking access and basic services [1], [2]

  • Could push out small businesses  [1]

Deschedule

  • No federal prohibition [1]

  • Interstate commerce [1], [2]

  • Full banking access [1]

  • Conducive for small businesses and commercial enterprises [1]

Beneficiaries

Reschedule to Schedule 3

Deschedule

#Dnot3

#Dnot3

Don’t reschedule.

Deschedule.

Return dignity to American people

24% of American adults consume cannabis products and shouldn’t be criminals in the eyes of the federal government.

Tobacco and alcohol are far more dangerous to public health.

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