The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a unique opinion keeping open a challenge to marijuana’s Schedule I status and warning that it may take matters into its own hands if the Drug Enforcement Administration doesn’t “promptly” consider medical cannabis patients’ rescheduling request.

“We are troubled by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)’s history of dilatory proceedings."

“Taking the facts as alleged, and, accordingly, taking the supposed benefits some Plaintiffs have experienced from marijuana as true as well, we—like the District Court below—are struck by the transformative effects this drug has assertedly had on some Plaintiffs’ lives. As a result, we are troubled by the uncertainty under which Plaintiffs must currently live.”

“It is possible that the current law, though rational once, is now heading towards irrationality; it may even conceivably be that it has gotten there already."

Source: The Marijuana Moment