U.S. Court of Appeals tells DEA to get its act together
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (New York), in a groundbreaking decision, warned the DEA that it may take matters into its own hands if the DEA doesn’t “promptly” consider medical cannabis patients’ rescheduling request.
“Taking the facts as alleged, and, accordingly, taking the supposed benefits some Plaintiffs have experienced from marijuana as true as well, we—like the District Court below—are struck by the transformative effects this drug has assertedly had on some Plaintiffs’ lives. As a result, we are troubled by the uncertainty under which Plaintiffs must currently live.”
“It is possible that the current law, though rational once, is now heading towards irrationality; it may even conceivably be that it has gotten there already.”
Robert Reich weighs in on why the country must legalize marijuana.
‘The federal prohibition of marijuana has been unnecessarily cruel—wasting billions of dollars, unjustly harming millions of lives, and furthering racist policies.’
