The Nevada Supreme Court is allowing the state Board of Pharmacy to continue classifying marijuana as a Schedule I drug under state law, despite the fact that cannabis is legal there for medical and recreational purposes.
On Monday, the Supreme Court reversed a 2022 ruling from the Clark County District Court that had deemed the board’s designation of marijuana as a Schedule I drug to be unconstitutional. All seven high court justices agreed that, procedurally, the lower court shouldn’t have been able to make their judgement outside of a criminal case.
ACLU of Nevada filed a lawsuit over the state’s cannabis classification in 2022, alleging that despite voters approving a legalization ballot measure in 2016, police have continued to make marijuana-related arrests because the Board of Pharmacy has refused to remove cannabis from its controlled substances list.
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