Trump Administration Battles Sick Kids on Access to Legal Pot
- Group urges judge to rule cannabis is improperly classified
- Marijuana is ‘Schedule I’ drug alongside heroin and LSD
Photographer: James MacDonald/Bloomberg
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In a New York courtroom packed with cannabis supporters, the Trump administration urged a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit that aims to pave the way for legal marijuana across the country.
The case was brought on behalf of two sick children, a former National Football League player who says athletes deserve a better way to treat head trauma than addictive opioids and the Cannabis Cultural Association. The suit, filed in July 2017, seeks a ruling that marijuana was unconstitutionally labeled alongside heroin and LSD as a so-called Schedule I drug -- the harshest of five government ratings -- when Congress passed the Controlled Substance Act in 1970.