Every party that applied to argue against moving marijuana to Schedule 3 of the Controlled Substances Act has full standing to participate in an upcoming landmark hearing, a top U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration judge ruled late Tuesday.
But only one organization supporting marijuana rescheduling will have full standing for the highly anticipated Dec. 2 hearing, according to DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge John Mulrooney II, who ruled that two parties who support rescheduling “may not independently continue to participate” in a process that might decide the fate of the federal prohibition of the drug.
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Mulrooney’s order, obtained by MJBizDaily late Tuesday, sent marijuana supporters – and many investors in publicly traded cannabis multistate operators – into a frenzy as they struggled to interpret
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