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Court of Appeals to Hear Pot Rescheduling Case

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(HIGHTIMES) Last week the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed to hear oral arguments beginning on October 16 in the case of Americans for Safe Access (ASA) v. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). This is a positive step in a drawn-out battle between the DEA and the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis (CRC) – a group consisting of advocacy organizations, companies, and patients, including Americans For Safe Access, Patients Out of Time, NORML, and HIGH TIMES.

In 2002, on behalf of the Coalition, longtime HT contributor Jon Gettman filed an administrative petition to remove cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Presently, the CSA lists marijuana as a Schedule I narcotic, defined as a substance that has “a high potential for abuse” and has “no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.” In reality, marijuana is regarded as one of the safest and least addictive illegal substances and its efficacy as medicine has been validated by numerous studies and reports.

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