The United States has criminalized cannabis since 1970. In response to pleas for reform and widespread state cannabis legalization, the federal government recently initiated rulemaking to reschedule cannabis. This Essay argues that the federal government should abandon its legally problematic rescheduling proposal and, instead, decriminalize and deregulate cannabis.

 

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 大麻合法化

美国自 1970 年以来一直将大麻定为刑事犯罪。为了响应改革和广泛的州大麻合法化的呼吁，联邦政府最近启动了重新安排大麻的规则制定。本文认为，联邦政府应该放弃其在法律上存在问题的重新安排提案，而是将大麻合法化和放松管制。