Cannabis Business Times
With one week left in the public comment period on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) proposed rule to reclassify cannabis to a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), 30,640 comments have already been submitted. More than 1,100 comments were submitted in the past three days, and nearly 3,000 in the past seven days.
The notice of proposed rulemaking was published by the Department of Justice (DOJ)—which oversees the DEA—in the Federal Register on May 21, starting the 60-day comment period, which ends July 22. In the
notice, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland proposed rescheduling cannabis and solicited comments on preliminary findings. The CSA requires that changes to a drug’s schedule be made through formal rulemaking on the record after opportunity for a hearing. (Cannabis Business Times reached out to the DOJ but has not been able to confirm whether or not requests for hearings have been made or if so, whether any have been granted.)
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