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This week: the DEA's rescheduling hearing is over, the evidence is in, and the file it produced will matter longer than the headlines about it.

For two and a half weeks, in a sealed hearing room with no cameras and a handful of public seats, the government argued under oath that cannabis belongs in Schedule III, and seven designated opponents argued back. We read the file the way a former regulator would. A government case that reversed fifty years of institutional position in a single morning, on the record for good. An opposition that put DEA's own scientist on the stand and watched its marquee witness concede the statutory question in a five-minute cross. And the 1988 precedent every operator should know: the judge who read the record most closely lost to the administrator who signed the order. The recommended decision is advice, the transcript is the document, and the real audience sits at the D.C. Circuit. The people who built this industry did their part without a hearing. The least the process can do is finish.

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