Congress Moves to Deschedule Cannabis: Inside the Bill Rewriting the 1970 Controlled Substances Act

On Thursday, October 29, Representative Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, introduced an 89-page bill with a title only a legislative drafter could love: the Public Health and Research Reforms in Controlled Substances Act. Ignore the name and read what it does. It tears up the scheduling system that has governed every drug in America since 1970 and rebuilds it from the foundation.