President Trump has signaled he’s considering correcting a 50-year mistake in US drug laws: Marijuana is in the same category as heroin and LSD.

A change in pot’s legal status at the federal level is overdue: Trump would be right to downgrade cannabis from Schedule I, defined as drugs with no accepted medical use and a high abuse potential, to Schedule III, where it would join ketamine, certain barbiturates and some opioid-like meds.

The original classification was not evidence-based but Nixon-era political payback. But what is at stake is much more than simply to which drug control schedule cannabis should be moved.

Trump faces a new reality: Cannabis in 2025 is fundamentally different and much more powerful than the one President Richard Nixon politicized in the 1970s.

It means the p

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