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President Joe Biden’s cabinet is starting to take shape. Those appointed, specifically to the positions of Attorney General (AG) and Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), have the power to essentially legalize marijuana at the federal level.
The CSA grants the AG and the DHHS Secretary the ability to remove a substance from a given schedule. The Attorney General delegates its power to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the DHHS Secretary delegates its power to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The CSA places substances on certain schedules based on their danger to society with Schedule I reserved for the most dangerous drugs. Marijuana is a Schedule I substance, alongside heroin and meth.
This is the second post in a two-part series. (Read part one here.) Today we’ll take a look at Biden’s picks for DHHS Secretary the current head of the FDA.
DHHS SECRETARY: XAVIER BECERRA
Xavier Becerra was the Attorney General for the state of California before being selected by Biden to run DHHS. Becerra has strong credentials showing his support for marijuana reform. When Jeff Sessions repealed the Cole Memo in January 2018, Xavier Becerra criticized the move and vowed to uphold California state law with regards to marijuana. Becerra’s office sided with a licensed marijuana business in its
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In partnership with The Fresh Toast
President Joe Biden’s cabinet is starting to take shape. Those appointed, specifically to the positions of Attorney General (AG) and Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), have the power to essentially legalize marijuana at the federal level.
The CSA grants the AG and the DHHS Secretary the ability to remove a substance from a given schedule. The Attorney General delegates its power to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the DHHS Secretary delegates its power to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The CSA places substances on certain schedules based on their danger to society with Schedule I reserved for the most dangerous drugs. Marijuana is a Schedule I substance, alongside heroin and meth.
This is the second post in a two-part series. (Read part one here.) Today we’ll take a look at Biden’s picks for DHHS Secretary the current head of the FDA.
DHHS SECRETARY: XAVIER BECERRA
Xavier Becerra was the Attorney General for the state of California before being selected by Biden to run DHHS. Becerra has strong credentials showing his support for marijuana reform. When Jeff Sessions repealed the Cole Memo in January 2018, Xavier Becerra criticized the move and vowed to uphold California state law with regards to marijuana. Becerra’s office sided with a licensed marijuana business in its
