It was just last November that voters in California voted to make marijuana recreational legal.
The state’s lawmakers are now officially calling on feds to reclassify the drug.
A joint resolution that was approved by the California Assembly this month with an overwhelming vote of 60 to 10, reads: The Legislature urges the Congress of the United States to pass a law to reschedule marijuana or cannabis and its derivatives from a Schedule I drug to an alternative schedule, therefore allowing the legal research and development of marijuana or cannabis for medical use.”
Right now marijuana is under the Controlled Substance Act’s Schedule I. This is the most restrictive ctegory. According to the category, the drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse. The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. There is also a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
Narcotics such as LSD, and Heroin are both Schedule 1 drugs.
The California resolution has also called for a change and reads, “the legal commerce of marijuana or cannabis so that businesses dealing with marijuana or cannabis can use traditional banks or financial institutions for their banking needs, which would result in providing a legal vehicle for those businesses to pay their taxes.”