Village Farms comments on delayed marijuana rescheduling process

Village Farms (VFF) issued a series of statements in response to delays in the marijuana rescheduling process resulting from its ongoing litigation against the Drug Enforcement Administration. The company’s comments follow orders from the Administrative Law Judge on January 13, which granted a request for leave to file an interlocutory appeal, and referred to various DEA behavior and alleged misconduct as “unprecedented,” “astonishing,” “embarrassing,” and “demonstrate(ing) a puzzling and grotesque lack of understanding and poor judgment from high-level officials at a major federal agency.” Michael DeGiglio, president, CEO and founder of Village Farms commented, “We view the outcome of this past week’s proceedings as an imperative step in this administrative process, and a symbolic victory against a conflicted government agency which we believe has no current intention of recommending that cannabis be transferred to a Schedule III designation. We were given a voice in these proceedings through our selection as the only cannabis operator participant, and we intend to do everything we can to use that voice to fight for a fair and honest process with a successful outcome, and to help right the wrongdoings of decades of government corruption, bureaucracy, and the failed War on Drugs.”