Health and Fitness

Patient Advocates File Appeal Brief in Federal Case to Reclassify Medical Marijuana

Lawsuit in the D.C. Circuit challenges DEA denial to reschedule marijuana for medical use

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Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2012. The country’s leading medical marijuana advocacy group, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), filed an appeal brief today in the D.C. Circuit to compel the federal government to reclassify marijuana for medical use. In July 2011, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) denied a petition filed in 2002 by the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis (CRC), which was…

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