Author: Deb Tharp

[ad_1] By Deb Tharp While the cannabis industry continues to wait for DEA to decide on rescheduling, it may be downplaying a more consequential issue playing out in Washington: the Supreme Court’s review of Chevron deference. Chevron, simply put, is the precedent that allows regulatory agencies to interpret ambiguous legislation as they see fit. The doctrine requires courts to defer to the administrative branch’s best judgment when creating regulations for unclear laws, even if the courts would have interpreted the laws differently. Back in the day, deferring to regulators’ expertise was rather radical. Before the precedent was established in, ironically,…