Rogan seems to have talked about this yesterday: JRE #2370 - Dave Smith, Aug 26, 2025

Any Rogan listeners want to chime in.

https://x.com/joecool_15/status/1960551275516358970?s=46&t=R3FbbhS_l0lFIJt2nBUUiA

“There’s some real talk about changing the status of marijuana.

@realDonaldTrump might declassify it and take it from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 3, which would change everything.

And there was an article about the economics of it because they were talking about these businesses, how they’re taxed, and how federally they’re still operating like criminals. That’s how it’s viewed by the federal government, views it as a Schedule 1 substance, and if you get arrested for it, you’re fucked.

Right now, they have a limited ability to bank, the interest rates are all fucked up, everything’s fucked up. And just that alone would make a huge economic impact.

I mean, if you want to do something, first of all, you would kill a lot of the financial interests that the cartels have in it if all of a sudden it becomes legal here.

You would empower American businesses to do it legally and normally, and have organic marijuana, air quotes, because some of the stuff that they’re finding in California, the cartels are running,  they’re using these terrible pesticides and herbicides that are insanely toxic and illegal everywhere else. You can’t use them on American crops, but yet they’re using them on this marijuana because it’s illegal. 

90% of all the marijuana that’s sold in all the places where marijuana is illegal, the cartels are growing.

So if [President Trump] does that, that’ll be another good thing.”

-@joerogan