A top Wyoming state official has filed a formal objection to rescheduling marijuana under state law, a reform that would otherwise be automatically triggered by the Trump administration’s move to reclassify cannabis on the federal level.
“The Wyoming Legislature has not legalized medical marijuana, has not approved a state licensed medical marijuana regulatory scheme, or approved of recognizing any other state’s medical marijuana issued licenses,” Attorney General Keith Kautz (R) said. “Therefore, placing marijuana subject to a state medical marijuana license in Schedule III of the Wyoming Controlled Substances Act is inconsistent with the police powers exercised to date by the Wyoming Legislature.”
“The question of whether to remove any type of marijuana from Schedule I of the Wyoming Controlled Substances Act is for the Wyoming Legislature and should not be done through the administrative rule making process,” he said.
The legislature, however, previously enacted a law that says “if any substance is designated, rescheduled, or deleted as a controlled substance under federal law,” the commissioner of drugs and substances control “shall control the substance under this act in the same manner as federal law” within 30 days.
Under state law, the attorney general serves as the commissioner of drugs
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