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Tennessee Democrats are calling for state cannabis reforms following President Donald Trump’s executive order to reclassify the plant from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 3 drug, with the president saying that cannabis, also referred to as marijuana, has "legitimate medical uses.”

Trump’s executive order could open new medical research opportunities for cannabis, as well as reduce taxes on the cannabis industry. Some Tennessee Republicans pushed back against the executive order in letters to the president, including Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty and U.S. Reps. John Rose and Diana Harshbarger.

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