The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has selected participants for a hearing about the Trump administration’s cannabis rescheduling process that is set to start later this month—and only opponents of the reform have been invited to take part.
On Thursday, DEA began notifying parties who had expressed intent to participate that they have been invited to do so, and also sending rejection letters to those who are not being invited.
The invited participants are:
National Drug & Alcohol Screening Association (NDASA) Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) The States of Nebraska, Idaho, Indiana, and Louisiana DUID Victim Voices Kenneth Finn, MD Phillip A. Drum, PharmD
All of the organizations, individuals and officials have expressed opposition to marijuana reform, and some have filed litigation in an attempt to block cannabis rescheduling specifically.
No reform supporters who expressed intent to participate have been invited.
According to several rejection letters Marijuana Moment has seen from cannabis reform supporters, DEA said they do not meet the definition of an “interested person” to participate because they are not “adversely affected or aggrieved by any rule or proposed rule issuable.”
In one such letter to the Drug Policy Alliance, DEA Administrator Terrance
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