Browsing: Rescheduling

California‘s cannabis industry suffers from a seemingly unending list of problems: high taxes, prohibitionist cities, a related lack of retail licenses and oversupply of non-retail licenses,…

Marijuana-specific controls in schedule III? The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Updated its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) last week to much fanfare. The NOPR would reschedule…

As the federal government moves to reclassify cannabis and put it in a slightly less restrictive category, the plot thickens. On Monday, Smart Approaches to Marijuana…

Last week, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) shared that marijuana would be rescheduled from a Schedule I, meaning that the plant was classified as a substance…

Yesterday, some big news dropped that the cannabis industry has anticipated since last summer. I take issue with some of the headlines, so here’s mine: “DEA…

Cannabis company stocks surged on Tuesday following reports that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) would move to reschedule cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under…

Photo: Lucas Favre / Unspash In recent years, the debate surrounding the legalization and decriminalization of cannabis has gained considerable momentum. As jurisdictions across the globe…

(Photo: aa-w / Depositphotos) NEW YORK – A powerful nonprofit that works to reduce the harms of both drug use and prohibition opposes a potential reclassification…

Cannabis rescheduling appears to be a matter of time and my colleagues have written about the possible implications (see here, here, and here). Rescheduling to a…

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommended rescheduling cannabis from schedule I to III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). My colleagues already…