Senate Democrats are reviving an endeavor to federally legalize marijuana after the Biden administration moved to reclassify the drug as a less dangerous one.

N.Y., held a press conference with other Democratic lawmakers to introduce the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act. The legislation will aim to change the federal government's approach to handling marijuana,

Moving marijuana to Schedule III, as the DEA plans to do, leaves federal pot prohibition essentially untouched.

Calling the U.S. drug control agency’s purported move to reclassify marijuana a ‘historic step,’ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says that he remains committed to even more significant cannabis reforms.