For more than 50 years, marijuana has been classified as a Schedule I drug, alongside drugs considered to have no accepted medical use, thanks to then-President Richard Nixon’s so-called War on Drugs.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order making some big changes to marijuana policy, the most substantial since 1970. On Dec. 18, Trump ordered the government to stop classifying ...

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients. By Jan Hoffman President Trump on Thursday ordered cannabis to ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Dec. 18 to federally classify marijuana as a less dangerous substance, the biggest change for the drug since 1970 and an opportunity for ...

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President Trump has signed an executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Message to Ken Burns: What Lincoln said about our founders on slavery The incident that prompted ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday that would reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification — a move that would ease federal restrictions, though it would not ...

President Donald Trump said Monday that the White House is “very strongly” considering signing an executive order to reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification, which would ease federal ...

More than 11,000 bottles of a common blood pressure medication have been recalled nationwide. Bisoprolol fumarate and hydrochlorothiazide tablets made by Glenmark Pharmaceuticals may contain trace ...

Over 11,000 bottles of a high blood pressure medication have been recalled for potential cross contamination with another drug. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., based in New Jersey, has voluntarily ...

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