DEA Judge Denies Marijuana Rescheduling Opponents’ Request To Reopen Hearing For More Testimony, But Allows New Briefs
“immaterial for the narrow purpose of this hearing”
A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) judge has rejected marijuana rescheduling opponents’ request to reopen an ongoing hearing on the Trump administration’s proposed reform for a new round of testimony and document discovery—but he is allowing a federal watchdog report that found there are “gaps” in the government’s process for evaluating controlled substances to be entered into the record and is inviting parties to submit additional briefs about it.
DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek Julius on Thursday said that some of the information that cannabis rescheduling opponents want new testimony and discovery about is “immaterial for the narrow purpose of this hearing” and others “could have been explored” by hearing participants during questioning of witnesses during the hearing.
Julius said that opponents’ arguments about a report that was published last month by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) are the “strongest” grounds to reopen the hearing, but instead of ordering more testimony and document discovery on the matter, he will add the report to the record and allow the parties to file additional briefs about it.
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