A group of five diverse plaintiffs have filed suit against the federal government and two Trump administration officials, claiming that marijuana\u2019s status as a Schedule 1 narcotic is unconstitutional and should be changed.<\/p>\n
The 89-page lawsuit<\/a>, filed in\u00a0New York District Court, asks that the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 be declared unconstitutional and that the Department of Justice be barred from enforcing it as it relates to marijuana.<\/p>\n The plaintiffs range from a retired NFL player who wants to enter the medical marijuana business to an 11-year-old girl who moved from Texas to Colorado to treat her epilepsy with<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Coalition sues US government with aim of legalizing cannabis<\/a> is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n
A group of five diverse plaintiffs have filed suit against the federal government and two Trump administration officials, claiming that marijuana\u2019s status as a Schedule 1 narcotic is unconstitutional and should be changed. The 89-page lawsuit, filed in\u00a0New York District Court, asks that the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 beContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,4,814,815,10,816,817,29,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17976,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions\/17976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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