A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hearing on the Trump administration’s cannabis rescheduling proposal has concluded, and the agency judge overseeing the proceedings has laid out a timeline for participating parties to file post-hearing briefs ahead of his own forthcoming recommendation on the reform.
The multi-day hearing, which began late last month, wrapped up on Wednesday following the end of a presentation by a handful of states that oppose the federal cannabis reform.
DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek Julius on Thursday issued an order saying that because “no time was allotted for closing arguments” during the in-person court days, participants in the proceedings will be able to file post-hearing briefs—and they are due by August 17.
Those documents can be a maximum of 50 pages in length and can include “closing arguments and argument on any other issue noted by the tribunal during the hearing.”
“This is a nonmandatory submission; therefore, a Designated Party will not be penalized for not filing a post-hearing brief, and the absence of a submission implies that no submission was intended,” Julius wrote.
His order also says that participants may submit proposed corrections to daily transcripts from the proceedings by August 17.
“Corrections submitted by
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