The move should make it easier for researchers to study the substance and give tax breaks to licensed medical marijuana dealers The federal government is reclassifying medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Norman Posselt via Getty Images The Trump administration has moved state-licensed medical marijuana to a less-restrictive drug category, per an order signed April 23 by the acting attorney general. Since 1970, the federal government has considered it a Schedule I drug: the most tightly controlled substances , with no accepted medical uses and high abuse potential. Other drugs in the category include heroin, LSD and MDMA, or ecstasy. Bumping medical marijuana down to the lower-risk Schedule III group puts it on par with prescription medicines like ketamine, anabolic steroids and Tylenol with codeine. The order does not legalize marijuana under federal law. It also doesn’t affect recreational marijuana.…