District of Columbia Circuit Court Decision In Appeal Of Ruling On Americans for Safe Access v. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

January 22, 2013
On January 22, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a ruling supporting the federal Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical uses supported by large late-stage clinical trials. The ruling was on an appeal filed in January 2012 by Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a national medical marijuana advocacy organization, on a lower court ruling in July 2011 denying a 2002 petition asking the DEA to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I substance to a Schedule II substance under . . .