Advocacy Groups Sue Feds over Rescheduling Delay

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Marijuana is currently a Schedule I drug, meaning it is deemed to have no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

The advocates have not received a response to a petition filed in 2002 seeking reclassification, according to a statement today from Americans for Safe Access, a plaintiff in the lawsuit. Other groups include the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis and Patients Out of Time, as well as individual patients, one of whom died in 2005.

The writ of mandamus accuses the government of violating the Administrative Procedures Act.

"The federal government's strategy has been delay, delay, delay," said Joe Elford, chief counsel of ASA and lead attorney on the writ, in the statement. "It is far past time for the government to answer our rescheduling petition, but unfortunately we've been forced to go to court in order to get resolution."

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