Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons For Descheduling, Rescheduling Or Not

With apologies to David Letterman, who introduced the first Top Ten List on Late Night with David Letterman on September 18, 1985, we present "Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not."*

The wide range of assertions supporting or opposing Health and Human Services' ("HHS'") recommendation that the Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA") reschedule cannabis federally from schedule I to schedule III would lead an outsider to conclude that commenters are referring to different substances. We thought that it would be educational and entertaining to list the Top Ten reasons presented in letters from three high profile stakeholder groups to Attorney General Merrick Garland and/or DEA Administrator Anne Milgram on how to handle the scheduling recommendation. We present the Top Ten Reasons in chronological order of the letters and in order of their appearance in those letters.