The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision to significantly curtail federal regulatory agencies’ power has triggered a fresh round of uncertainty about the status of marijuana rescheduling.
But none of this uncertainty is expected to disrupt the Biden administration’s rescheduling process, policy and administrative law experts told MJBizDaily.
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The court on Friday ruled 6-3 along partisan lines that courts no longer must give deference to federal agencies’ interpretation of laws when Congress leaves ambiguity, marking an end to the so-called Chevron doctrine, named for a 1984 court case.
In the past, courts “hand(ed) over their judicial power to interpret to the actual subject matter experts in the room – the regulators,” Deb Tharp, head of legal and policy research at NuggMD, an online provider
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