Supreme Court Rejects Marijuana Reclassification AppealPhillip Smith The court denied in summary order a petition for a writ of certiorari from the groups, led by Americans for Safe Access, which had sought Supreme Court review of a DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding the DEAs ruling that a change in marijuanas classification required the Food and Drug Administrations recognition of acceptable medical uses for the drugs. Advocates of rescheduling marijuana have been trying to do so for more than four decades, but have been thwarted by DEA delays and intransigence. This was the third formal rescheduling effort to be blocked by DEA decision making. Its disappointing, but not altogether surprising, he said. A fourth effort to reclassify marijuana led by the governors of the medical marijuana states of Rhode Island and Washington was filed in 2011 and is still awaiting action. Phillip Smith writes for StopTheDrugWar.org where this article first appeared. 