Nevada’s Supreme Court Could Change Classification Of Cannabis As Legal Tangle Heats Up
The Nevada Supreme Court is at the center of a legal discussion that could impact the classification of cannabis within the state.
This comes in the wake of the Nevada Board of Pharmacy’s maintenance of cannabis as a Schedule 1 substance. This designation places it alongside drugs considered to have no medical use, despite Nevada voters approving medicinal marijuana use in 2000 and recreational use in 2016.
The state’s highest court heard oral arguments on Tuesday, addressing whether this classification contradicts the constitutional amendment. During the proceedings, Justice Kris Pickering pointed …