[anatnom]

I've been hunting for the related source for this (and similar) article today. I cannot find any FDA press releases[1] which point to any documents like this being released. From a YouTube video from the same source as this article, there is a brief image of a document, which is the August 29, 2023 letter from HHS to the FDA [3-redacted].

Has anyone found a more definitive source that the FDA has recently released a "report" with this content? I wonder if this is just slow news day recap of old information.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-newsroom/press-announcem... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VULoaz3E7o&t=20s [3-redacted] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/signed-ash-to-dea-le...

[blake1]

I found this. https://www.yahoo.com/news/fda-says-marijuana-legitimate-med...

[resoluteteeth]

Maybe wait a day or two to see if the report appears on their website before assuming that the article is wrong?

[anatnom]

Instead, I will assume that the FDA has not reversed a decades-long policy without evidence stronger than a local news station which uses a local weed doctor as their quotable source.

The change in _stated_ FDA policy is a huge shift. This explainable-by-a-simple-mistake news article seems much more likely to me. This article header says "Posted at 5:43 AM, Mar 21, 2024 and last updated 2024-03-21 20:13:30-04". That's a 100% full business day where _no other mainstream media_ picked up the story? Possible, but not likely.

[ryanwaggoner]

Agreed, this looks like fake news. Good reminder to me to not take headlines at face value.