“Marijuana is currently classified in the same category of drugs as heroin and a more dangerous category than fentanyl or cocaine.”
What PolitiFact found
It's true for now. Following the legalization of marijuana for medical or recreational use by many states, federal officials are considering rescheduling marijuana to a lower category of concern.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kirsten Gillibrand (U.S. Senator, D-N.Y.) made this claim around 3 February 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 February 2024, 17 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Kirsten Gillibrand has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- documentcloud.orghttps://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24432634-gillibrand
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