Marijuana Is Same As Heroin According To Nevada Supreme Court In Reversal Ruling That Cannabis Is A Schedule 1 Drug
A precedent 2022 ruling under which the Nevada Board of Pharmacy could no longer list cannabis as a Schedule I Controlled Substance was overturned this week by the Nevada Supreme Court, reported Las Vegas Review-Journal.
What Happened
In 2022, Clark County District Judge Joe Hardy Jr. sided with the argument from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nevada that marijuana has an accepted medical use.
The lawsuit from Antoine Poole and the Cannabis Equity and Inclusion Community organization, both represented by the ACLU, argued that the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy failed in its attempt to honor the will of Nevada voters, following the passage of the Nevada Medical Marijuana Act in 2000 and the Initiative to Regulate and Tax Marijuana in 2016.
The Board of Pharmacy, a body in the executive branch, oversees pharmacies – entities that do not distribute cannabis and therefore lack the authority to grant licenses for the sale or consumption of marijuana, as recently highlighted by Benzinga’s