If the Biden administration moves forward with a recently proposed plan aiming to reclassify marijuana, the results could make major waves within the U.S. marijuana industry. It could also mean a great deal for Mississippi. The proposed plan would reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III.

For decades, the United States’ “war on drugs” moved in one punitive direction. As the Biden administration’s dramatic moves help prove, it’s a new day.

Reclassifying cannabis is necessary and it’s a long overdue step, but it is not the end of the story, it’s not all we need to do,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said this week.

The federal government's plan would recategorize pot, once deemed highly dangerous, addictive and without medical use, as a prescribable medication.