{"id":304762,"date":"2024-05-16T21:12:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T21:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/us-proposes-reclassifying-marijuana-as-low-risk-drug\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T21:12:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T21:12:19","slug":"us-proposes-reclassifying-marijuana-as-low-risk-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/us-proposes-reclassifying-marijuana-as-low-risk-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"US proposes reclassifying marijuana as low-risk drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration formally proposed on Thursday reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift that would bring federal policy more in line with public opinion. &#8220;No one should be in jail merely for using or possessing marijuana. Period,&#8221; Biden said in a video statement. &#8220;Far too many lives have been upended because of a failed approach to marijuana and I&#8217;m committed to righting those wrongs.&#8221; Marijuana has been classified since 1970 as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) along with heroin, <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/us-proposes-reclassifying-marijuana-as-low-risk-drug\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration formally proposed on Thursday reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift that would bring federal policy more in line with public opinion. &#8220;No one should be in jail merely for using or possessing marijuana. Period,&#8221; Biden said in a video statement. &#8220;Far too many lives have been <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/us-proposes-reclassifying-marijuana-as-low-risk-drug\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}