Dear Governor Hutchinson, I read your press release criticizing President Biden for pardoning all federal cannabis possession convictions and requesting that the Attorney General and HHS Secretary initiate the administrative process to reconsider cannabis’s schedule I status under federal law. Your arguments—that President Biden “waved the flag of surrender in the fight to save lives from drug abuse” and “ignored the science that is behind the different categories of drugs—aren’t just wrong. They’re dangerous. I write to explain why that is so and in the hopes that you’ll join our efforts to pursue