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Only the DEA and Congress can de-schedule weed.

W. Michael Schuster 22, assistant professor at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business and UGA School of Law, Winter 2022, “Cannabis Derivatives and Trademark Registration: The Case of Delta-8-THC,” Indiana Law Journal, 98(1), pp. 181-182, Lexis, kav

Federal law allocates the power to place drugs into a particular schedule to the Attorney General,27 but that authority has been delegated to the DEA.28 This discretion can, however, be circumscribed by congressional mandate.29 Indeed, that [*182] authority was invoked in 2018 with the passage of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 ("2018 Farm Bill" or "Farm Bill").30

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