DEA Announces Hearing On Proposed Ban Of Five Psychedelic Compounds Following Significant Pushback
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is taking the rare step of holding a hearing on its hotly contest proposal to place five psychedelic compounds in Schedule I—an action that scientists say would significantly hamper emerging research into their therapeutic potential. DEA said in a notice set to be published in the Federal Register on Wednesday that a hearing will be held on August 22, and any person who can demonstrate that they'd be "adversely affected or aggrieved" by the proposed scheduling decision can request to testify. The agency first proposed scheduling the tryptamines—4-OH-DiPT, 5-MeO-AMT, 5-MeO-MiPT, 5-MeO-DET and DiPT—in January. And it faced significant pushback from the research and advocacy communities, receiving nearly 600 messages during a public comment period, with most opposing the rule change and requesting a hearing. DEA's own administrative court subsequently agreed that there was a need to hold a hearing on the matter before the prohibition could be enacted. "In requesting a hearing, the requestors stated that their intention is to present factual information and expert opinion concerning the significance and reliability of the medical, scientific, and other bases that DEA provided in support of the proposed scheduling of the five tryptamine substances," the agency's new notice says. DEA's Administrative Law Judge Teresa Wallbaum issued an order in February that set the hearings into motion, detailing a timeline for prehearing statements from the agency and stakeholders, as well as setting a date for a prehearing conference in May. The function of the Office of Administrative Law Judges is specifically to adjudicate in cases related to DEA enforcement and regulations. In this case, the opponents of the agency's proposed ban are hoping the judge will ultimately recommend either a lower schedule or no schedule at all for the five compounds. That said, the head of the DEA…
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