A view of a marijuana plant in San Anselmo, California, on August 11, 2025. Reporter President Donald Trump has ordered federal restrictions on marijuana to be loosened. The executive order, signed ...

For more than 50 years, marijuana has been classified as a Schedule I drug, alongside drugs considered to have no accepted medical use, thanks to then-President Richard Nixon’s so-called War on Drugs.

Drug discovery is a high-risk, high-cost endeavor, with over 90% of candidates failing in clinical development. A significant proportion of these failures stem from unresolved biopharmaceutic ...