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Wait. The DEA sets the "scheduling" of drugs? I always thought it was Congress and/or the White House.
by jimt1234 3y ago
Wait. The DEA sets the "scheduling" of drugs? I always thought it was Congress and/or the White House.
- dragonwriter 3y agoCongress set the initial scheduling of some drugs, and set a process for updating the schedules within the executive branch going forward, with the DEA (in statute, the Attorney-General, but in practice within Justice its the DEA doing the main work) playing the key role (HHS in statute -- via the FDA in practice-- plays a mandatory role in advance of the decision, which is controlling in the case of a currently non-controlled drug that HHS recommends not controlling, but advisory in, I believe, all other cases.)
- calvinmorrison 3y agoIf the ATF can announce rescheduling of a constitutionally protected right based on random features, surely the DEA can do so as well