Move Swiftly to Reschedule Marijuana – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

Lawmakers Frustrated with DEA Inaction Despite Guidance from President Biden and Department of Health and Human Services

“It is time for the DEA to make good on the President’s commitments,” said the senators.

Text of Letter (PDF)

April 26, 2024 – Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and U.S. Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) led 17 lawmakers in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram, expressing their growing frustration that the DEA has not acted to remove marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. They are asking the DEA to swiftly take action and begin to remedy the harms of marijuana’s scheduling by removing marijuana from the agency’s Schedule I list of controlled substances. 

The letter was also signed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Representatives Dina Titus (D-Nev.), Becca Balint (D-Vt.), Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), Val Hoyle (D-Ore.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Katie Porter (D-Calif.), and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.).

“We are now nearing eight…