Can Article V bring about a change in cannabis scheduling at a federal level? Read on as this post from Forbes discusses the likely impact of pursuing this legal strategy. As the fight for country-wide marijuana legalization gains momentum, lawyers have come up with some innovative ideas for challenging prohibition, such as the landmark Washington V Sessions case, which ... Continue Reading
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Senate Panel Criticizes Cannabis’ Schedule 1 Barrier
A key U.S. Senate committee says that cannabis' current federal classification of schedule 1 blocks scientific research on its effects. But despite the seeming concern about the effect of state legalization, the panel's criticism of Schedule I's roadblocks to marijuana research provides more momentum to the effort to reclassify cannabis under federal law. This post from Forbes, ... Continue Reading
Judge Dismisses the Cannabis Scheduling Lawsuit
A judge dismissed the landmark case to overturn the schedule 1 status of cannabis, applying the “exhaustion rule” of administrative remedies. Read more in this post from Leafly. Less than two weeks after hearing oral arguments in the case of Washington v. Sessions, which challenged the federal government’s scheduling of cannabis, a federal judge on Monday dismissed the ... Continue Reading