U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is scheduled to appear before a key House committee next week—and advocates are holding out hope that lawmakers will press her to provide an update on the Justice Department’s progress in fulfilling President Donald Trump’s executive order to finalize the pending federal marijuana rescheduling process.
It’s been nearly two months since the president instructed Bondi to complete the process of moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Ac (CSA). The attorney general hasn’t publicly commented on the directive, however, and DOJ officials have offered little insight into the status of the rescheduling proposal.
A Justice Department spokesperson told Marijuana Moment last month that it had no “comment or updates” to share on the topic. However, an agency official more recently told Salon that “DOJ is working to identify the most expeditious means of executing the EO.”
That phrasing is notable, signaling that the department is uncertain about the administrative pathway to finalize rescheduling. The hope among advocates and industry stakeholders was that the process would be more simple, with a final signature on the existing reform proposal that was released following a scientific review initiated under the prior Biden administration.
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