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The fate of marijuana rescheduling took a major hit before the Fourth of July holiday, when the U.S. Supreme Court tossed a wrench into the massive engine that is the regulatory state to see what will break.

The high court’s ruling in Loper v. Bright massively curtails the power of regulatory agencies to set and enforce rules, including the proposal to recategorize marijuana as a Schedule 3 substance.

Were it to play out on the current path as an administrative action, rescheduling could fail.

But that’s not the problem.

Rescheduling now will take far longer than it otherwise would have because the Supreme Court gave the opposition new lines of attack against the rescheduling decision.

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