Historic hearings on marijuana’s status under federal law will begin in earnest sometime in mid-January, an administrative law judge for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said during a procedural session Monday.
At that time, hearings will be held “Tuesday through Thursday … for as long as it takes,” said John Mulrooney II, the DEA’s chief administrative law judge.
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There’s still no exact date when Mulrooney might rule on moving marijuana from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3 of the Controlled Substances Act, which would have profound consequences for the $32 billion legal U.S. cannabis industry.
That long-awaited date appears to be no earlier than February, when some of the parties designated to participate in the rescheduling process indicated availability to give part of what
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