The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s refusal to comply with direct orders from the administrative law judge overseeing the marijuana rescheduling process is “unprecedented and astonishing.”
That’s part of the scathing criticism directed at the DEA on Monday by the agency’s chief administrative law judge, John Mulrooney II.
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Mulrooney’s comments were in response to the DEA’s failure to follow directions on how to submit its proposed testimony to be heard once hearings on the Biden administration’s proposal to reclassify cannabis under federal law resume on Jan. 21.
Judge: DEA didn’t provide ‘hard copies’
The DEA was instructed to “timely provide … hard copies” of its planned testimony and evidence, as Mulrooney’s Monday order noted. Instead, the DEA provided “a compact disc (CD) containing copies”
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