A former top U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official who cast doubt on marijuana rescheduling last year is President Donald Trump’s interim choice to oversee the DEA – and, potentially, the agency’s historic rescheduling process.
The Trump administration on Monday tapped Derek Maltz to take over as DEA administrator on an interim basis, Bloomberg News reported.
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Maltz, whose 28-year DEA career included 10 years as special agent in charge of the agency’s Special Operations Division, assumes control from the agency’s previous chief, Anne Milgram.
Maltz will inherit from Milgram an ongoing and contentious process to reclassify marijuana under federal law.
Trump is pro-rescheduling; his DEA pick, not so much
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