12/4/24 - Order re: Proceedings After Prehearing Conference
This is the landing page for www.marijuanarescheduling.com where I will track the historic DEA rulemaking proceedings to reschedule marijuana as it unfolds. This rulemaking not only will determine whether marijuana should be removed from Schedule I, but will have a significant import on the rescheduling of psychedelics and drug scheduling generally.
One would think these proceedings should be publicly accessible. After all, business conducted by federal agencies is the public’s business. Filings in public rulemaking proceedings ought to be accessible. This is doubly true with proceedings to remove marijuana from Schedule I.
Sadly, this is not the case. Although DEA itself has pages for these proceedings (live stream, ALJ orders), unlike a public docket, those pages do not contain all case filings and they are not updated in real time. See, unlike court and other federal agency proceedings, DEA adjudications and rulemakings are usually not transparent. In fact, they effectively take place in secret. Looking at you team #DOGE.
This is unfortunate. Throwing up a public docket to track the proceedings would take no time at all. The technology to do this has existed for decades. Indeed, I’ve thought about throwing up a quick WordPress site to track these proceedings myself—but I’m busy being a lawyer and participating in the proceedings.
For now, I will endeavor to publish all the orders, submissions, and filings from the case here and below.
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