Officials with the nation's top cannabis prohibitionist advocacy group say they are hearing that the results of the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) cannabis scheduling review will be announced "very soon," possibly as soon as "today or tomorrow."
DEA has spent the last eight months considering a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommendation to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Now leaders of the organization Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) say they're seeing indications that DEA's review is complete and will be revealed imminently.
"We're hearing a lot of chatter—even as we're having this podcast, I'm hearing from some sources that pro-cannabis Democratic senators are saying it's very soon, as in today or tomorrow," SAM President Kevin Sabet said during an interview on the organization's "The Drug Report" podcast on Monday. "So it could be wishful thinking or not. I don't know whether it will be coming as we as we talk. So, again, we'll see."
Rumors about the timing of a rescheduling decision have been swirling for months. But the sources of those rumors have been consistently pro-reform, making it all the more notable that this time it's coming from a prohibitionist group that has advocated for keeping cannabis in Schedule I.
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