President Joe Biden‘s historic action on marijuana will likely have a significant impact on the 2024 election, possibly blunting the president’s slide with young voters and even earning him support from independents.

Biden ordered the Department of Health and Human Services in late 2022 to study the effects of reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule 1 to Schedule 3 drug, which would remove it from the ranks of heroin and cocaine and place it alongside prescription-available treatments, including testosterone and ketamine.