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Controlled Dangerous Substances
259 published works
Budding Trends
Hurry Up and Wait: DEA’s Rescheduling Hearing Hits the Brakes Over Its Own Alleged Process Gaps
By Whitt Steineker, Slates C. Veazey
As usual, Tom Petty was spot on when he sang, “the waiting is the hardest part.” Marijuana rescheduling has tested that proposition all year, and this week it was retested.…
Thompson Coburn LLP
Michael Rosenblum, Jake Schwartz Examine Bankruptcy Landscape for Cannabis Businesses
In a recent Law360 article, Thompson Coburn partners Michael Rosenblum and Jake Schwartz examined the evolving question of whether cannabis-related businesses can access bankruptcy protection. While cannabis’s status as a…
Ogden Glazer + Schaefer Blog
Hurry Up and Wait: More Federal Speedbumps for Federal Hemp and Marijuana Regulation
By Sam Kavalier
Over the last year or so, two points of federal cannabis reform have been in the news: (1) shifts in Congressional policy around the federal treatment of hemp (see Collin’s…
Canna Law Blog
Medical Marijuana in Schedule III Survives Its First Major Challenge
On September 9th, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied a motion to stay filed by SAM, Inc. and the National Drug and Alcohol Screening…
Pharmacy & Healthcare Legal Blog
DEA, Red Flags, and the Limits of “Corresponding Responsibility”
Let’s revisit one of the most prominent DEA cases decided by a federal court this year. I am talking about Neumann’s Pharmacy case coming from the Firth Circuit. Although the…
Budding Trends
The Vault Is Still Locked: A Banking Update on Cannabis Rescheduling
There's a scene near the end of every heist movie where the crew finally cracks the vault and it's empty. Somebody already got there first, or the money was never…
EJIL: Talk!
Towards a Fit-for-Purpose International Drug Control System
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) is the United Nations commission with primary responsibility for the application of the three drug conventions. At its 68th session in 2025, it adopted…
Federal Defenders of New York Blog
How far can harmless-error review go before it swallows the jury-trial guarantee?
United States v. Parasmo, No. 23-6555 (2d Cir. May 19, 2026) (Sullivan, joined by Kearse, Robinson dissenting) The Second Circuit affirmed Frank Parasmo’s conviction on thirty-two counts of unlawfully distributing…
Substance Law Blog
Get DMT Legal Exemption For Daime Tea on Religious Grounds in Canada
By Publisher
Learn About DMT and its Legal Status in Canada In Canada, the substance N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, commonly known as DMT, is classified as a controlled substance under the federal Controlled Drugs and…
Kight on Cannabis
DEA Just Listed HHC in Schedule I. I Still Think the Statute Matters.
By Rod Kight
If you sell HHC, be honest about the risk. If you regulate hemp, be honest about the text. And if you care about the future of cannabis reform, do not…