Reactions to the DEA's Refusal to Reschedule Cannabis
Thursday morning, the DEA issued a double denial to two petitions that requested to take cannabis off of the Controlled Substance Act.
“We are bound by statute – by the law. We enforce the laws on the books,” Rusty Payne said to The Marijuana Times, in an interview following the announcement.
The National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (NORML) deputy director, Paul Armentano wrote in an op-ed for The Hill about his struggle with the federal agency. “To those familiar with the DEA’s history, the agency’s decision was hardly surprising. Over the past three decades, the agency has rejected four previous rescheduling petitions, and in 1990 the DEA even went so far as to set aside a determination of its own administrative law judge in order to maintain cannabis Schedule I criminal status.”
“Bottom line,” Armentano wrote to me in an email, “is that both DEA and FDA take a very narrow...
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