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Marijuana Moment stands up for transparency in DEA rescheduling hearing

Next week, a historic hearing on federal cannabis rescheduling will begin—although you won't be able to watch it...at least not under an initial order from the DEA judge who will be overseeing the proceedings.

But Marijuana Moment is taking action and standing up to make sure that the testimony—which involves only cannabis reform opponents as invited participants—don't happen behind closed doors with limited in-person seating.

The DEA judge simultaneously recognized that "national public interest in this issue predicates towards a policy of transparency" while also determining that "the hearing will not be televised, livestreamed, or broadcasted in any way."

In a letter that Marijuana Moment's attorney sent this week, we are asking him to reconsider the decision to prohibit livestreaming.

"Limited physical seating...is not a meaningful substitute for livestreaming," our lawyer Joseph A. Bondy wrote. "Marijuana Moment, like many members of the press and public who follow federal cannabis policy nationally, cannot rely on a handful of available seats as a practical means of observing and reporting on the hearing."
The letter notes that that DEA allowed streaming of an earlier, subsequently cancelled hearing process on the proposal to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III that took place during the Biden administration.

"In a proceeding of this public significance, and in light of DEA’s prior livestreaming directive, a public hearing is not meaningfully public if access depends on the happenstance of limited physical attendance," Marijuana Moment's attorney wrote to the DEA judge. "Delayed access to transcripts is no substitute for contemporaneous observation. The press reports events as they unfold. The public evaluates government action in real time. And in a proceeding of this magnitude, transparency is not a courtesy. It is a safeguard."

If you appreciate and rely on Marijuana Moment's reporting to stay informed about key cannabis developments—from federal rescheduling to state legalization bills and the latest scientific studies to what politicians are saying about reform on the campaign trail—would you please consider supporting our work?

Join Marijuana Moment on Patreon with a monthly pledge of $10/month or more to ensure that we can keep monitoring hearings, reviewing newly filed legislation and analyzing the latest scientific journal articles so you don't miss out on hearing about anything important.

Our attorney wrote in the new letter to the DEA judge that "for a substantial public audience seeking serious coverage of federal cannabis policy, Marijuana Moment is an important channel through which public understanding of this proceeding occurs."

If you are part of that audience—and I know you are, since you are reading this—please step up today to help give us the resources we need to keep doing this work to keep you and so many others informed every day.
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Tom Angell
Marijuana Moment
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