The controlled substance-prescribing flexibilities invoked in January 2020 in response to the PHE under subparagraph D were set to end with the termination of the PHE on May 11, 2023.

Despite 37 states having robust medical-marijuana programs, the federal government has long blocked efforts to reschedule or even deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 ...

Under the Controlled Substances Act, the federal government — which has largely relegated the regulation of drugs to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) — puts each drug into a ...

Here is a short summary of a January 30, 2025 version of the bill. S. 331 - Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act Summary. This bill, titled the **Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act ...

On Tuesday, a source familiar with the process confirmed that they plan to reclassify marijuana for the first time since the Controlled Substances Act was signed in 1970.

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah doctor was barred from prescribing opioids and other controlled substances and ordered to pay $65,000 after he was accused of illegally issuing prescriptions to customers.

On October 24, 2018, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (Pub. L. 115-271, the “Act”) was signed into law. Section 3222 of this sweeping ...

The House of Representatives approved the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act, H.R. 3617 on Friday, sending it to Senate. The MORE Act removes cannabis from the federal ...

According to a summary of H.R. 27, this bill permanently places fentanyl-related substances as a class into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. A Schedule I controlled substance is a ...

The Controlled Substances Act was an attempt to justify existing legislation. Many laws prohibiting specific drugs had passed by the 1960s, often propelled by bias and propaganda and without ...

July 02, 2024 - On May 16, 2024, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") issued its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking related to the transfer of marijuana from schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act ...