Posts Tagged 'Rescheduling'

Medical marijuana advocates want drug reclassified | Politics | The Seattle Times

Medical marijuana advocates want drug reclassified | Politics | The Seattle Times.

A federal appeals court in Washington is considering whether marijuana should be reclassified from its current status as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use.

By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON —

A federal appeals court in Washington is considering whether marijuana should be reclassified from its current status as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use.

Last year, the Drug Enforcement Administration rejected a ...

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42 Wash. lawmakers ask DEA to reclassify marijuana – seattlepi.com

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42 Wash. lawmakers ask DEA to reclassify marijuana – seattlepi.com.

42 Wash. lawmakers ask DEA to reclassify marijuana

Updated 11:31 a.m., Monday, January 30, 2012

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — More than three dozen Washington state lawmakers sent a letter to the federal government on Monday, asking for marijuana to be reclassified as a drug that can be prescribed by doctors and filled by pharmacists.

Reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule II drug would allow it to be prescribed by doctors and ...

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ASA : Patient Advocates File Appeal Brief in Federal Case to Reclassify Medical Marijuana

ASA : Patient Advocates File Appeal Brief in Federal Case to Reclassify Medical Marijuana.

Patient Advocates File Appeal Brief in Federal Case to Reclassify Medical Marijuana

Lawsuit in the D.C. Circuit challenges DEA denial to reschedule marijuana for medical use

Washington, DC — The country’s leading medical marijuana advocacy group, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), filed an appeal brief today in the D.C. Circuit to compel the federal government to reclassify marijuana for medical use. In July 2011, the federal Drug Enforcement ...

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