The judge overseeing a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hearing on the Trump administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal has issued an order directing that corrections be made to the official transcript of the proceedings.
DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek Julius on Thursday ordered that dozens of mostly small and technical changes be made to the record and that the final version be posted for public review by next week.
“The fully corrected transcript will be made available to the public in electronic format on the Agency’s website by no later than August 26, 2026,” he said in the 13-page filing.
While many of the corrections are intended to fix spelling errors or misidentification of certain named individuals, there some notably substantive changes.
For example, while a speaker was misquoted as delivering the statement “This is a medication,” the corrected transcript will now show they were actually asking the question “This is a medication?”
In another instance, the statement “there’s adulterants” is being corrected to “there’s no adulterants.”
There are also certain errors being fixed that some observers may find humorous, such as “pubic” for “public” and “anal” for “analysis.” There are two instances in which the word “nubs” is being swapped out
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