The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is asking an agency judge to reject a request to have it removed from upcoming marijuana rescheduling hearings over allegations it opposes the reform it is supposed to be defending during the proceedings—while still declining to clarify where it actually stands on the proposal.
About a week after DEA Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) John Mulrooney ordered the agency to respond to a motion filed by pro-rescheduling witnesses, it submitted its reply on Monday, disputing the various claims and asking for a dismissal.
Village Farms International, Hemp for Victory, the Connecticut Office of the Cannabis Ombudsman, Ellen Brown and My Doc App had renewed their request to have the judge remove DEA as the proponent of the proposed rule to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) on several grounds.
Part of the pro-rescheduling participants’ motion addressed a new declaration submitted to the ALJ by a DEA official this month, wherein the agency pharmacologist seemed to question the basis of the reclassification proposal. It also alleged additional unlawful communication with an anti-rescheduling witness and questioned the agency’s rationale for selecting certain witnesses while denying others, including the state of
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