The Department of Justice and groups that oppose the Trump administration’s marijuana rescheduling move have agreed on what they believe the schedule should be in an ongoing lawsuit that seeks to block to reform.
On Friday, federal officials who are defending the cannabis reform and the challengers behind the litigation filed a joint brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia laying out a proposed plan for how the case should proceed.
The filing says that the proposal would allow for the briefing schedule to “conclude by mid-February, ensuring that oral argument could be heard before the Court’s summer recess.”
They are requesting that the court “schedule oral argument as soon as reasonably practicable after the conclusion of briefing.”
The appeals court is weighing three separate lawsuits against the proposal to move marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to Schedule III that have since been consolidated.
One suit is led by the prohibitionist organization Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) and the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association (NDASA), who claim they are “aggrieved” by the reform. Another comes from a coalition of anti-marijuana activists, substance misuse professionals, doctors and MMJ International Holdings, a cannabis-focused
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