DEA Says It Didn’t Conspire With Anti-Marijuana Group, Dismissing Allegedly Illegal Talks As ‘Gossip’

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says it “unequivocally denies” allegations that it engaged in unlawful communication with a prohibitionist group during the Biden administration’s marijuana rescheduling process, characterizing the reported conversations between agency officials and the organization’s president as “gossip.”

In a response to a motion seeking to remove DEA from the rescheduling proceedings over alleged ex parte communications with Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), the agency on Monday flatly denied any wrongdoing and requested a dismissal of the motion from Hemp for Victory and Village Farms International.

“Movants’ own evidence fails to demonstrate that any unlawful ex parte communication took place,” DEA said in its brief with the administrative law judge (ALJ) overseeing the case. “The Movants would have this tribunal embark on a fishing expedition in search of evidence to support these sweeping, unsupported claims, which at best can be categorized as gossip, not ex parte communications.”

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