DEA Responds to Claim That Agency Will Reclassify Cannabis on August 1

by Kathleen RichardsThe DEA says its priority is the growing opioid crisis, not medical marijuana. a katz / Shutterstock.com
The DEA is responding to a claim by an anonymous DEA lawyer that the federal agency plans to reschedule cannabis to a Schedule II drug on August 1. The story was first reported by the Santa Monica Observer. And the Internet of Weed jumped all over it.(Well, not everyone did. Some realized that the story was based on a single anonymous source and a very questionable scenari