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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it has no record of a letter from the White House regarding President Joe Biden’s marijuana scheduling review directive, seemingly contradicting what the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently testified to lawmakers.
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing last month, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram told Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that the president “had sent a letter to the secretary of HHS and to the attorney general to ask for the scheduling—descheduling process to begin.”
Attorney Matt Zorn (Header Image) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for a copy of that letter, and HHS sent him a response last week stating that it “conducted a search” that determined “there are no records responsive to your request.”
In an open letter published on his “On Drugs” Substack, Zorn implored Gaetz to “follow up with DEA” about the potential document, which could shed light on the opaque administrative process that is ongoing as federal agencies contemplate the appropriateness of marijuana being classified as a strictly illegal Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
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Biden Admin Has No Record Of Marijuana Letter Cited By DEA Head In Congressional Testimony
