When Is Marijuana Officially Rescheduled? Schedule 3 Timeline Is Unclear – And Has Risks

One day after President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated executive order directing federal authorities to reclassify cannabis as a less dangerous drug, the $32 billion legal U.S. cannabis industry is posing a central question: When?

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“I can’t say exactly how long that will take because there is no deadline,” added Shane Pennington, a partner at Blank Rome.

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‘No deadline’ for marijuana to be rescheduled

“The issue is, they’re going to have a bureaucratic gauntlet to run,” Pennington said.

Pennington represented interested parties in the planned hearings before a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration law judge that were paused on the eve of Trump’s inauguration – in part due to allegations that the DEA was tilting proceedings towards keeping cannabis Schedule 1.

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"When Is Marijuana Officially Rescheduled? Schedule 3 Timeline Is Unclear – And Has Risks," by Chris Roberts was published in MJBizDaily on December 22, 2025.