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Editorial: Biden’s plan to reschedule marijuana may finally end ‘Reefer Madness’

Grow manager Ian Finley, left, and chief horticulturist Butch Williams tend to the marijuana plants growing in the Scottsdale Research Institute in 2021..

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency plans to reclassify marijuana from the most restrictive category — Schedule I, up there with heroin — down to Schedule III, in the company of testosterone and Tylenol with codeine. This does not mean that the federal government is giving its blessing to the use of cannabis as a recreational drug. But it does recognize that there are medicinal uses for marijuana, and

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