[#item_full_content] The government’s 50-page closing argument asks Judge Derek Julius to “expeditiously recommend” moving marijuana to Schedule III. Its closing section attacks the credibility of nearly every witness who opposed the change and quotes several of them making the medical case anyway. The DEA’s own pharmacologist appears once. The opposition’s brief cites her 25 times. Plus: the judge’s transcript-correction order, filed Thursday. 
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Marijuana Rescheduling: DEA’s Final Brief Asks Judge for Schedule III
ByPot Shop News
August 20, 2026