Alice O'Leary Randall: DEA And Re-Scheduling: The Dream Is Over

Note: This article first appeared in Cannabis Now.

Many marijuana activists and reformers were disappointed recently when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued their long anticipated “big announcement” of the summer and marijuana wasn’t rescheduled. Rumors had been swirling for months that DEA would re-schedule marijuana, moving the prohibited substance out of Schedule I and into, well, no one really knew because there was really no substance to the rumor. As an observer of the marijuana reform movement for nearly…