(NEXSTAR) — At the end of last year, it seemed that marijuana could be rescheduled in the U.S. That idea came screeching to a halt when proceedings were put on pause in January.

There were early hopes that the then-incoming Trump administration would get the ball rolling, but that didn't immediately materialize either. On Monday, however, President Donald Trump confirmed his administration is "looking at" reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug.

“We’re looking at reclassification, and we’ll make a determination over, I’d say, the next few weeks,” Trump said during a press conference, The Hill reported.

Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, but the latest efforts, launched under the Biden administration, would put it as a Schedule III drug. The process of rescheduling marijuana — or trying to — has

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