DEA, HHS extend telehealth controlled substance prescribing flexibilities for fourth time

The extension, released shortly before the flexibilities were set to expire at the end of 2025, gives regulators more time to ...

Trump downgrade of marijuana to Schedule III still source of debate

An executive order from the Oval Office directed the U.S. Attorney General to expedite the downgrading of marijuana from a ...
JD Supra

HHS Recommends Re-Classification of Marijuana as a Schedule III Controlled Substance – A Bellwether for the Future of Cannabis-ness

On August 30, an official at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released one of the most significant announcements made at the federal level concerning marijuana ...
JD Supra

HHS Recommends that Marijuana be Reclassified as Schedule III Controlled Substance

On August 29, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recommended to the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) that marijuana be reclassified from a Schedule I controlled ...
The Hill

Should marijuana be rescheduled?

For more than 50 years, dozens of “controlled substances,” including various pharmaceutical products as well as marijuana, cocaine, heroin and everything in between, have been shoe-horned into five ...
WKRN-TV

‘Designer Xanax’ designated Schedule I controlled substance in Kentucky

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WOWK) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced Monday that bromazolam, also known as “Designer Xanax,” received an emergency designation as a Schedule I controlled substance. As a ...
Altoona Mirror

Pa. Department of Health schedules nitazenes as Class I controlled substance

HARRISBURG — The state Department of Health is temporarily scheduling nitazenes as a Class I controlled substance, effective Saturday, July 19. Nitazenes are a class of synthetic opioids that can be ...