American Trucking Associations has asked Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to provide clarity on a long-pending federal proposal to reclassify marijuana as a less harmful drug, a move ATA has opposed due to safety concerns centered on driver impairment.
ATA Chief Operating Officer Dan Horvath in a two-page Aug. 14 letter reaffirmed ATA's commitment to work with USDOT and all stakeholders on strategies to prevent marijuana-related crashes and fatalities.
He stressed ATA has no formal policy on legalization of marijuana; rather, Horvath said, ATA is "deeply concerned about the safety risks of rescheduling marijuana without explicit safeguards to preserve the necessary testing authority and technical requirements for DOT-regulated safety-sensitive workers."
The Trump administration has indicated it may take action on the unresolved proposal from the Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana from the most serious category of federal drug offenses to a lesser category. The proposal was introduced during the Biden administration.
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