Nevada Supreme Court Rules to Keep Marijuana as Schedule I Drug, Similar to Heroin and Cocaine

The Nevada Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that deemed the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy’s designation of marijuana as a schedule I drug as unconstitutional, allowing the board to continue classifying cannabis as a controlled substance on par with cocaine and heroin. In their Aug. 5 ruling, all seven justices on the Nevada Supreme Court determined that the lower court’s decision, which found the pharmacy board’s classification of marijuana as a controlled substance in violation of the state constitution, was incorrect on procedural grounds, including lack of standing. The justices wrote in their opinion that the plaintiffs in the case, Antoine Poole and the Cannabis Equity and Inclusion Community (CEIC), “do not clearly demonstrate the injury-in-fact or causation components of standing, and they cannot show redressability in view of Nevada’s statutory scheme.”...