The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) chief administrative law judge has ordered a lengthy series of corrections to the official transcript from the federal marijuana rescheduling hearing, with an updated version scheduled to be released publicly by August 26.
Judge Derek C. Julius issued the order today. The evidentiary hearing the order covers ran from June 29 through July 15, with parties given an opportunity afterward to propose corrections involving mistranscribed statements, incorrect speaker identifications, spelling errors and other issues.
Corrections were submitted by the federal government, Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), the states of Nebraska, Idaho and Indiana, Phillip A. Drum, DUID Victim Voices, Kenneth Finn and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
The 13-page order makes corrections covering all 11 hearing days. Many involve names, speaker labels and technical terminology, while others change words or phrases that could substantially alter how a statement reads.
For example, the transcript was corrected from “there’s adulterants” to “there’s no adulterants” on the first hearing day. On July 7, “Demonstrating increase in psychosis episode, yes” was corrected to “Demonstrated increase in psychotic episodes, yes.”
Other changes include correcting “0.2” to “0.02,” changing “illegal” to “legal,” and replacing two references to “CS-III” with “CS-I.”
On the July 14 hearing day, one passage was corrected from “CS III to a I” to “CS-I to a III,” while another changed “increase” to “decrease.”
Julius said the corrections will be incorporated into the official transcript, which will be posted electronically on the DEA’s website no later than August 26. Corrections will appear in red text, while deleted material will be shown with strikethroughs. Personally identifiable information will be redacted from the public version.
