DEA still has doubts about marijuana rescheduling, GOP lawmakers claim

Two leading congressional Republicans wrote a letter to Biden administration officials expressing concern with the marijuana rescheduling process’ “unusual” circumstances and suggesting that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has similar doubts.

The recategorizing of marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug to Schedule 3 left “several unanswered questions and policy gaps,” wrote Washington state Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Kentucky Republican Rep. Brett Guthrie, who chairs the Subcommittee on Health.

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“We support research into innovative therapies to improve patient outcomes, but we are concerned with how the normal process was circumvented to achieve a result for political purposes and we have a number of unanswered questions,” the letter, addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland and

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