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Lawmakers urge DEA to pick up the pace on cannabis scheduling review

Members of Congress on Wednesday once again pushed the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to follow through on guidance to remove cannabis from the top of its list of controlled substances.

It's been roughly eight months since the Department of Health and Human Services recommended that the DEA reclassify cannabis as a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act and more than a year since the Biden administration directed federal agencies to review the plant's classification.

That's 18 too many months of DEA inaction, a group of Democrats led by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren told agency administrator Anne Milgram in a letter dated Wednesday.

"It is time for the Drug Enforcement Administration to act," Warren told Milgram and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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