WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Sen. Cory Booker issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement in response to Trump administration's reclassification of state-licensed medical marijuana to a schedule III substance:
"Finally, the federal government has loosened the decades-long policy that treated marijuana like heroin and methamphetamine, a policy researchers, elected officials, and everyday Americans have long understood was wrong. The Department of Health and Human Services recommended this change in 2023, and I had hoped the Department of Justice would have acted sooner.
"Rescheduling marijuana as a Schedule III substance will bring financial and...