A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) judge has ordered the agency to respond to new allegations that it opposes the Biden administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal it is supposed to be defending and that it had additional improper communications with opponents of the reform.
Just one day after a motion outlining the allegations was filed by several witnesses set to participate in hearings that begin later this month, DEA Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) John Mulrooney issued a briefing order on Tuesday mandating that the agency reply by next week.
Village Farms International, Hemp for Victory, the Connecticut Office of the Cannabis Ombudsman, Ellen Brown and My Doc App are ultimately asking the judge to remove DEA as the proponent of the proposed rule to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
“The Motion for Reconsideration requests a series of relief related to alleged improper ex parte communications between the Agency and other actors,” Mulrooney said. “The Government is herein ORDERED to file a response to the Motion to Reconsider” by January 13.
Part of the pro-rescheduling participants’ motion addresses a new declaration submitted to the ALJ by a DEA official last week, wherein the agency pharmacologist
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