A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) judge is scolding the agency for failing to provide required documents ahead of Monday’s initial marijuana rescheduling hearing and directing officials—in bold, all-caps text—to furnish them later this month. He also announced the timeline for merit-based hearings on the proposed rule.
In a prehearing ruling issued on Wednesday, DEA Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) John Mulrooney laid out next steps in the cannabis rescheduling process, with testimony now set to begin on January 21.
He also admonished the agency for declining to turn over a list of evidence it plans to introduce in forthcoming proceedings on the proposal to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
“For reasons that are not altogether apparent, although directed to do so in the November 19, 2024 Standing Order, the Government did not supply the complete list of documentary evidence it intended to offer into the record,” he said. “Instead, the Government noticed a few documents and indicated below the line that notice of more documents could be forthcoming upon a supplemental filing date.”
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