President Donald Trump’s second nominee to head the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration told a Senate committee that reviewing the agency’s administrative process to reclassify marijuana will be “one of my first priorities” if he is confirmed.
However, while testifying Wednesday before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, potential DEA administrator Terrance Cole was noncommittal about whether he supported the proposed rescheduling, saying he needs to understand where the process stands.
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“I’m not familiar exactly where we are, but I know the process has been delayed numerous times, and it’s time to move forward,” Cole told Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, during the confirmation hearing.
Padilla responded that the committee knows where rescheduling stands and that the DEA’s directive is to reclassify marijuana from Schedule
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