A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) judge overseeing a hearing on the Trump administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal is ordering the agency to respond to opponents’ request for a new round of testimony and discovery in the proceedings.
The dispute concerns a recently released federal watchdog report that found there are “gaps” in the government’s process for evaluating controlled substances. DEA said in a brief filed last week that it is fine with including the document in the hearing record, as opponents have pushed for, but it does not want any further briefings on the matter.
Opponents of the reform, meanwhile, are pushing to further delay a decision in the proceedings by asking the judge to order a new round of testimony and discovery.
DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek Julius on Wednesday issued an order directing the agency to reply to the opposition motion by October 21.
“Having received a new substantive motion, I will once again order a response and allow time for filing,” he said, specifying that DEA’s brief should be no more than 10 pages long.
“This matter remains STAYED to allow time for a response and to allow time for the tribunal to consider the pending motions,” the
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