Cannabis rescheduling

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Cannabis rescheduling, or cannabis reclassification, refers to efforts to transfer cannabis to (usually) a less strict category of substances which are legally prohibited or regulated, or to decriminalize or even legalize it altogether. Internationally, the drug is in Schedule IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, that treaty's most restrictive category. In the United States, it is in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the most restrictive category, which allows no medical use. It is in Class C of the United Kingdom's Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, a category which does not allow arrest for possession[1]. It was downgraded to this category from Class B in January 2004.

[edit] See also

• Cannabis reclassification in the United Kingdom
• Cannabis reform at the international level
• Cannabis rescheduling in the United States

[edit] References

• Blunkett to Focus on the Menace of Hard Drugs, Home Office Press Release 255/2001, 23 Oct. 2001.