New federal rules complicate Ohio's marijuana landscape | Law of The Land
"Law of the Land: Changes for Marijuana"
Since 1996, when California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana, there's existed a complicated legal gray area around the drug.
Some states have gradually made medical and eventually recreational marijuana legal, all while the federal government still had it classified as a Schedule I drug. That's the federal classification for drugs that are seen as having no accepted medical use, such as heroin.
But late last month, the U.S. Department of Justice moved state-licensed medical marijuana to a Schedule III drug, which has accepted…
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