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ARTICLE · 10 APRIL 2026

Why Has Marijuana Not Been Rescheduled? The Answer Is Obvious, Kinda

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
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President Trump's executive order directed the attorney general to reschedule marijuana expeditiously, yet three months later, the process remains stalled. GOP operative Roger Stone has publicly called out the inaction...

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Whitt Steineker
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Since President Biden announced the initiation of proceedings to reschedule marijuana and President Trump issued an executive order directing the attorney general to do so as expeditiously as possible, industry stakeholders and politicos have wondered when, and perhaps increasingly if, marijuana would be rescheduled. How is it possible that Trump, who self-admittedly demands loyalty from his top advisors, has not been able to get this pushed across the line?

Our friends at Marijuana Moment dropped some interesting news last week:

Someone in the Trump administration is “holding up” the completion of a marijuana rescheduling proposal, according to a longtime advisor to the president.

It’s been more than three months since President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Justice to finalize a rule to move cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to Schedule III “in the most expeditious manner”—but that hasn’t happened.

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