WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration is considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, telling reporters at the White House that officials will make a decision in the “next few weeks.”

“We’re looking at reclassification,” Trump said, adding “it’s early.”

He said he planned to make a determination soon.

The president said marijuana “does bad for the children,” but that easing penalties associated with it is a “very complicated subject” because some people support doing so.

Trump said he’d “heard great things having to do with medical” use of marijuana.

A potential move to remove marijuana from the list of Schedule I controlled substances to a Schedule III drug would make it significantly easier to buy and sell cannabis.

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