The federal government first classified cannabis as a Schedule I drug back in 1970 with the Controlled Substances Act. For years, it sat alongside heroin on the same list under federal law.

Now, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA, has a big decision to make: Do they keep cannabis as a Schedule I drug or do they change it?

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