“They’re going after the labs, then the employees involved, then all the producers and wholesalers who are implicated,”

“She can’t just snap her fingers and do it when she gets into office. It’s not something that can be done via executive orders.”

“Optimism is required if you’re going to fight the War on Drugs for over half a century,” reflects Vince Sliwoski in a poignant piece on The Canna Law Blog about Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s impending retirement.

Cannabis lawyer Vince Sliwoski of Harris Sliwoski notes banks’ are increasingly curious about entering the space given the prospect of rescheduling.

As the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, the Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, but wouldn’t legalize it for recreational use.

This proposal would move marijuana from the “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III.”

This switch is considered “paradigm-shifting, and it’s very exciting,” Vince Sliwoski, a Portland, Oregon-based cannabis and psychedelics attorney who runs well-known legal blogs on those topics, told The Associated Press when the federal Health and Human Services Department recommended the change.

“I can’t emphasize enough how big of news it is,” he said.

As the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, the Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, but wouldn’t legalize it for recreational use.

This proposal would move marijuana from the “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III.”

This switch is considered “paradigm-shifting, and it’s very exciting,” Vince Sliwoski, a Portland, Oregon-based cannabis and psychedelics attorney who runs well-known legal blogs on those topics, told The Associated Press when the federal Health and Human Services Department recommended the change.

“I can’t emphasize enough how big of news it is,” he said.