Newsletter Articles | May 31, 1991
Court Rules DEA Standards on Medical Use of Marijuana ‘Unreasonable’
OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
Industry News
The US. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided unanimously on April 26, 1991 that the Drug Enforcement Administrations (DEA) standards prohibiting the medical use of marijuana were unreasonable. Judge Lawrence Silberman, who wrote the decision, ruled that the agency had established several standards that prevented medical marijuana from getting fair consideration. The panel remanded the case (Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics v. DEA. No. 90-1010) to DEA according to a report in the March/April . . .