DEA's Marijuana Rescheduling Announcement May Not Come in 2016

Lindsey Bartlett

Update: It's unofficially official. A senior executive at the Drug Enforcement Administration has confirmed that the DEA will not be rescheduling marijuana in 2016, says a local attorney who spoke with him late last week. “The DEA is not going to reschedule marijuana this year … they aren't issuing a public announcement about the change,” the attorney adds.

Many marijuana advocates - and the legislators who support them - have been hoping that the DEA would reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance. The reclassification would acknowledge that the drug holds medical value and allow for more research.

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