{"id":38136,"date":"2025-12-18T23:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38136"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:50:58","slug":"president-trump-reclassifies-marijuana-with-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38136","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Reclassifies Marijuana With Executive Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: President Trump Reclassifies Marijuana With Executive Order<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">President Trump Reclassifies Marijuana With Executive Order<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Marijuana was downgraded from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug on Thursday. The reclassification does not legalize cannabis, but it does ease restrictions on the substance and allows for more research.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">Today, I\u2019m pleased to announce that I will be signing an executive order to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III controlled substance with legitimate medical uses. We have people begging for me to do this. I want to emphasize that the order I am about to sign is not the legalization or it doesn\u2019t legalize marijuana in any way, shape, or form, and in no way sanctions its use as a recreational drug \u2014 has nothing to do with that.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Marijuana was downgraded from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug on Thursday. The reclassification does not legalize cannabis, but it does ease restrictions on the substance and allows for more research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>December 18, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: President Trump Reclassifies Marijuana With Executive Order transcript Back transcript President Trump Reclassifies Marijuana With Executive Order Marijuana was downgraded from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug on Thursday. The reclassification does not legalize cannabis, but it does ease restrictions on the substance and allows for more research. Today,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[3298,20948,1435,1059,20955,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-38136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-executive","9":"tag-marijuana","10":"tag-order","11":"tag-president","12":"tag-reclassifies","13":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}