Marijuana Rescheduling Judge Blasts DEA For ‘Unprecedented, Astonishing’ Behavior
- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is facing criticism for refusing to comply with direct orders from the administrative law judge overseeing the marijuana rescheduling process.
- The DEA failed to follow directions on how to submit its proposed testimony for hearings on the Biden administration’s proposal to reclassify cannabis under federal law.
- Chief administrative law judge John Mulrooney II called the DEA's disobedience of the tribunal's directive "unprecedented and astonishing," and an "action taken in deliberate defiance."
- The DEA's actions have been described as extraordinary and puzzling in the ongoing litigation process surrounding the marijuana rescheduling.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s refusal to comply with direct orders from the administrative law judge overseeing the marijuana rescheduling process is “unprecedented and astonishing.”
That’s part of the scathing criticism directed at the DEA on Monday by the agency’s chief administrative law judge, John Mulrooney II.
Mulrooney’s comments were in response to the DEA’s failure to follow directions on how to submit its proposed testimony to be heard once hearings on the Biden administration’s proposal to reclassify cannabis under federal law resume on Jan. 21.
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“Even among the numerous extraordinary and puzzling actions taken thus far by the Government during the course of this litigation, this disobedience of an unequivocal directive from the tribunal is unprecedented and astonishing,” wrote Mulrooney, who added the DEA made an “action taken in deliberate defiance of specific direction.”
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