rescheduling

Today the Drug Enforcement Administration is expected to announce its decision on a five-year-old marijuana rescheduling petition. After a long wait and amid wild speculation about the agency's intentions, DEA has decided to keep marijuana as a Schedule I substance, but to take the unexpected...

The Drug Enforcement Administration flaked on its self-imposed deadline to announce whether to reschedule marijuana, and now it's not clear when a decision might come. In April, the DEA told lawmakers in a letter that it was reviewing information on rescheduling and "hopes to release its...