DOJ and FDA Fight Over Marijuana [Picture, Video]

Washington, DC – A recently revealed document indicates that top federal health officials have given the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) a recommendation to reschedule marijuana under the federal Controlled Substances Act. However, the details of that recommendation are not entirely clear.

Cannabis is currently considered a Schedule 1 drug under federal law, a classification reserved for drugs considered to have no medical value. So, if any rescheduling is to happen, it can only get better.

According to the document obtained by Marijuana.com:

“DEA recently received the [Department of Health and Human Services] scientific and medical evaluations as well as a scheduling recommendation that HHS prepared in response to” two petitions to reschedule cannabis under the federal Controlled Substances Act, Assistant Attorney General Peter J. Kadzik wrote in a September 30 letter to Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR). “DEA is currently reviewing these documents and all other relevant data to make a scheduling determination in accordance with the [Controlled Substances Act].”

The most recent DEA denial of a cannabis rescheduling petition came in 2011, almost five years after the FDA’s input was forwarded in December of 2006. Prior to that denial, a petition to reschedule was denied in March of 2001, only two months after the FDA recommendation was made.

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